But still being driven into the ground by Matt Mullenweg.
deegeese
joined 2 years ago
Just because you don’t know any artists doesn’t make you cool for ripping them off.
Dude I hate ads too but I recognize that people like you and me who view content but block the way to pay for it, we’re actual parasites on the creatives. Google is just a bigger parasite and exploits both creatives and advertisers.
The people paying for content are the parasites?
I thought it was the monopolist in the middle engaging in rent-seeking behavior like this.
The real group getting screwed here are advertisers who used to get free protection against their campaigns running with excessive frequency.
This change lets Google burns their customers ad budgets of a bunch of junk duplicate impressions.
In this case “corporate greed” is making a better 1P experience so people don’t trade it in so fast.
Optimizing AI performance by “scaling” is lazy and wasteful.
Reminds me of back in the early 2000s when someone would say don’t worry about performance, GHz will always go up.
I used to love Sonos but the old CEO fucked it up to replace fast local control with flaky slow cloud BS.
They can’t revert because their stupid new headphones require the new version.
I’m not buying any more of their kit unless they fix the user experience.
Well that sure is of them.
It’s a poor workman who blames his tools.
Illegal business can operate online for a long time if they have good OpSec. Anonymous payment systems are much easier these days because of cryptocurrencies.