The people paying for content are the parasites?
I thought it was the monopolist in the middle engaging in rent-seeking behavior like this.
deegeese
joined 2 years ago
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.
Why is Kit on instance X gatekeeping a user in instance Y from accessing a community on instance Z?
Gives me vibes of old man yelling at kids to stop having fun.
Did CS2 ever get “good enough” to warrant ditching CS1 for it?
1000 sons is too many unless you’re Genghis Khan.
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.