HogsTooth

joined 8 months ago
[–] HogsTooth@lemmy.world 97 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Remember when Eli Lily lost billions because an account with a blue check mark pretending to be them said they were giving insulin away for free?

[–] HogsTooth@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Then stop beating the "it's all hopeless" drum. You're certainly not going to change my mind.

[–] HogsTooth@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

You sound like an ad for advertising. I've seen the studies and I think our relationship with companies is changing. I trust people/groups/companies very differently than my parents and grandparents do. To just give up... Fuck that.

[–] HogsTooth@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

That's the spirit

[–] HogsTooth@lemmy.world 79 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People are abusing Google's ad distro platform to get malware onto people's machines. I see Microsoft signed up for the same firestorm of possibilities.

[–] HogsTooth@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (8 children)

On a bigger scale, I think it's all wasted money. Maybe its the autism, but the more I see a company name, any company name, the less I want it in my house.

[–] HogsTooth@lemmy.world 76 points 4 months ago (12 children)

With even the FBI recommending adblockers maybe ads aren't the thing we should prop up our economy with. They don't work, people hate them, and now even passively ignoring them isn't an option. But I don't know if the world can operate on the Patreon model.

[–] HogsTooth@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

I used to maintain a wordle clone. I was meticulously making sure that any changes in the NYT word list would be reflected in my app as well, the goal was synchronization because the secret to wordle is that we're all playing the same game... until we're not. I haven't touched that repo in months. The NYT can suck it.

[–] HogsTooth@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Without the only app store that matters, this was dead on day 1 for me.