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I'm really thankful I haven't yet had a job where all I'm developing is new ways to force people to see ads. Imagine working on a 'feature' like this for weeks or months, and the end result is simply that people who don't want to see ads now have to see ads.
I'm really thankful I haven't yet had a job where all I'm developing is new ways to force people to see ads. Imagine working on a 'feature' like this for weeks or months, and the end result is simply that people who don't want to see ads now have to see ads.
Ethics aside, this actually sounds kind of fun to me. It's the kind of clever puzzle solving many of us love about programming - it's basically a cat and mouse game.
I'm really thankful I haven't yet had a job where all I'm developing is new ways to force people to see ads. Imagine working on a 'feature' like this for weeks or months, and the end result is simply that people who don't want to see ads now have to see ads.
There are worse jobs at Facebook.... https://www.revealnews.org/article/facebook-knowingly-duped-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19002596 Imagine being part of the gaggle of fuckheads who decided to not implement simple preventative measures that made it harder for children to accidentally spend thousands of dollars in manipulative games. Or their peers who who helped strategize more effective tricks for gam…
meanwhile https://text.npr.org/ ps: thanks for the comments below, I was curious about similar websites
I wonder at which point will we just stream pages as interactive video content with a text optimized codec. Most pages on the internet are bloated to the point where it might just make sense. (I am not advocating, I am predicting)
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Yep, seems like a total waste of time. The people scraping will spend the necessary time to get around this (and then distribute that knowledge to the masses) so it seems like a pointless arms race. Facebook employees could better use their time on developing actual features that bring value.
They could render the whole thing in canvas for example
If they turn all their posts into then it'd kill any accessibility features and the ability to copy-paste text and such so I doubt they'd go that far.
Even then, a scraper could run OCR on the canvas image to get the text out of it.
I'm really thankful I haven't yet had a job where all I'm developing is new ways to force people to see ads. Imagine working on a 'feature' like this for weeks or months, and the end result is simply that people who don't want to see ads now have to see ads.
meanwhile https://text.npr.org/ ps: thanks for the comments below, I was curious about similar websites
https://eu.usatoday.com/ contains images, but it's also super-fast
Mirror, as supposedly non-EU addresses get redirected back into the JS hell version: https://q3k.org/u/177a712e927a13dd63d249a6336ab505e29cf6ddfb...