• JackbyDev
    link
    fedilink
    English
    816 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      1116 days ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        216 days ago

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

        Imagine you were a billionaire. Which do you want?

      • JackbyDev
        link
        fedilink
        English
        116 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      1
      edit-2
      16 days 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