Re:Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You
by gumby on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:18PM
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> No, it hasn't. It's still 100% about how to benefit users for most teams. That is quite literally the only thing that matters and everything else is a means to an end.
I can't agree with this statement. It's 100% about how to benefit the company, which means satisfying the customer. And serving users up to the customers is the name of the game.
Most sites are heavy with trackers. You could argue that *one& might be in the user's interest, but can hardly make the same claim for the huge number of ad-related ones) and full of devious antipatterns. Just enough value for the user, one hopes, to get the page view.
I can't agree with this statement. It's 100% about how to benefit the company, which means satisfying the customer. And serving users up to the customers is the name of the game.
Most sites are heavy with trackers. You could argue that *one& might be in the user's interest, but can hardly make the same claim for the huge number of ad-related ones) and full of devious antipatterns. Just enough value for the user, one hopes, to get the page view.