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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by tekla on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:27AM (#36875913)
They get paid lots of money.
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by liendolucas on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:30AM (#36875944)
But surely those folks can walk away and put in their CV that they quit because they were in charge of implementing one of the worst ideas the history of internet has seen so far. Wouldn't you hire someone that puts that in their resume?
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by gabereiser on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:39AM (#36876033)
People don't work for the dignity, they work for the paycheck. As long as people are willing to pay others more for doing this than saving the internet, it will continue the trend. Lashings will continue until morale improves.
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by liendolucas on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:47AM (#36876115)
> People don't work for the dignity, they work for the paycheck.

I'm sorry but I don't believe that. I do understand that line of thought if you are in a very complicated personal/financial situation but you're stating that the only driver is money, which is clearly wrong...

Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by gabereiser on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:25AM (#36878273)
it may not be your experience, but 95% of us work because we need the money.
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by liendolucas on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:37AM (#36878438)
I do need an income too. I do pay rent, every single month. I do pay a loan, every single month. Bills? You guessed it: every single month. What's your point, really?
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by slowmovintarget on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:37AM (#36879520)
People are going to take their pay and do their job because to do otherwise could mean they can't maintain their lifestyle or keep their family provided to the same standard they're currently living at.

Altruism is not a default position, and is unusual in the real world.

I'm not saying that's how it should be, or that people shouldn't work to make it otherwise. But you say why don't all those people walk away from that? How far would you go? What if you had children depending on you? It's very easy to condemn other people as "greedy" but you show a lack of understanding, of empathy, perhaps, for how people in general function in the world if you assume they should just do what you say because "obviously, my moral stance trumps their concerns."

Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by allarm on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:41AM (#36879596)
The good thing is that there are multiple sources of getting money.
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by Moldoteck on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:53AM (#36876186)
those will walk away, others will come and to them money would be absolute motivator. If there's a thing humans can invent/implement, without any regulation, it'll be implemented (and often even with regulation it may be implemented)
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by wildrhythms on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:18AM (#36876415)
If only there was some form of labor organizing that could allow workers to keep their job while collectively opposing building horrific things like this.
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by tekla on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:20AM (#36876428)
Why would the labor oppose building this? This makes their members tons of money.
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by ohgodplsno on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:56AM (#36876856)
>Wouldn't you hire someone that puts that in their resume?

To most employers, that would read as "prone to insubordination", and be an immediate red flag. Because each and every one of them will inevitably ask you to do something at some point that will be fucked up.

Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by michelb on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:57PM (#36880908)
They won't need to be hired again. Work a few years, retire without a care in the world.