Every time Facebook is buying something I feel sad and imagine Facebook like the black plague that will swallow that normal organism.
Why? They have a tendency to better products they acquire, look at whatsapp, instagram, oculus.
Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
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#462Giphy is so lucky. All the best to them.
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200k is fairly normal if not low for a senior backed role in SF. Especially considering that any stock options you got would end up being worthless.
I feel like you can quote just about arbitrarily high number for an SF engineer salary and someone will come out of the woodwork to tell you that it's actually low.
"senior" is overused, in reality a junior-senior can easily make 150k base, a senior-senior can make 250k base. And we're not even talking about netflix.
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Cookie-based tracking, sure. But there are plenty of other avenues for fingerprinting. This[1] help doc from Adobe Analytics even makes reference to a Subscriber ID header you can get mobile carriers to give you, if you get onto the carrier's whitelist. Nothing the vendors do device/browser-side to restrict tracking will help if your mobile carrier is transparently appending an identifying header to your request afte…
This doesn't work for SSL enabled websites, right?
I don't know enough about TLS However, that doesn't stop carriers from inserting something at the start of the stream that the client doesn't see. It would need to be coordinated with the origin server, but that's already true for HTTP header insertion. Sending a pre-handshake blob to a TLS server that isn't expecting such a blob would fail hard though, rather than going on its merry way like an extra header usually would.
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That interview was bad. They're trying to make you feel bad for the Instagram founders because they were too stupid to realize that after you _sell_ your company you don't own it anymore. Also, per that interview, Instagram only became sustainable under Facebook. Hard to feel bad about it.
> Instagram only became sustainable under Facebook. That's an incredible leap to say IG couldn't develop their own ad network as a stand alone company. Hire a few people away from Google with options in a growing company the same way FB did. If IG didn't sell they would have fully killed Facebook's relevancy by now.
Yeah, but the IG founders didn't want to put ads on the product at all. It was not a sustainable business while in their control.
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#467So, what's next they will buy? :D
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#468So, what's next they'll buy? :D
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#469Wonder what will come of the Signal integration... not exactly a good look...
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Question os: How many will switch it out? Giphy has a big collection of images and works ... swapping is effort and brings different (unexpected?) results.
Create a proxy that exfiltrates their active database while providing anonymity.
Again, a small number of people might do that, if one gets too large by chance Giphy/Facebook will attempt to block them. Most users and integrations will be kept. As people stay on WhatsApp etc.