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[–] Thoven 38 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Cards on the table: for Google money I'd do it too. If they want to enshittify their product until the competition has a fighting chance, who am I to stop them? Sure, it's an annoying and anticonsumer thing to do. But making a "free" product's bad qualities harder to circumvent isn't the ethical hill I'm going to die on.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But, who's their competitor? They have none. All the other alternative have very specific community (artsy short film, science, etc)

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 10 points 2 months ago

And it sucks, not a lot of them federate because video storage is expensive

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For Google money I'd do it too...but I wouldn't do a very good job of it

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I don't really get the argument here. As much as it sucks, it's not nearly as morally reprehensible as something like weapons. If you don't do it someone else will. It's not something a handful of devs are gonna make a difference in by boycotting and it isn't worth being fired over or not accepting a job over.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Advertising is absolutely morally reprehensible. It is propaganda that exists only to manipulate people into buying shit they didn't want or need. And it turns out that mindless consumerism is destroying society and our planet.

[–] infinite_ass@leminal.space 2 points 2 months ago

You can't make better people and better cattle at the same time.

Imagine you were a billionaire. Which do you want?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

I never said it wasn't morally reprehensible. Only that it's less morally reprehensible than something like making weapons.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Last time i watched youtube unprotected it had a higher fcking ad frequency than television. And they were put in the stupidest places imaginable, making the video unwatchable. And i'm fucking genx, so i grew up way before the concept of avoiding ads.

There's funding your product then there's just being a piece of shit

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

I would take the job just to make sure we can sabotage it. And I'm not even affected by their adblocker detection; I just yt-dlp and NewPipe the videos.