I worked for one the biggest Advertising agencies in the world for almost a decade.

[fesshole@mastodon.social]

I worked for one the biggest Advertising agencies in the world for almost a decade. Ad-Blockers were installed on everyone's work computers by default, the entire time.

[daburudar@mastodon.social]

@fesshole Working for an ad agency is the confession, right?
No-one cares that you block ads: everyone does it because ads are ugly, intrusive, annoying and sometimes full of malware. It's sad that the internet as a whole went for adverts as a way of funding websites, because it really doesn't seem to work that well. No one likes them, everyone blocks them, and I'm yet to hear of someone finding an ad relevant to their interests despite all the creepy privacy-invading shit the ad industry does.

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

The dealer strategy of not getting hooked on your own product

[shadowwwind@mastodon.social]

@fesshole well, don't get high on your own supply

[cppguy@infosec.space]

@fesshole

My work computer used to have #uBlockOrigin preinstalled. Now there's no ad-blocker and I can't get into the browser settings page to install one Because Security️.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@shadowwwind @fesshole In software development there's the concept that you should, "eat your own dog food."

I imagine in marketing it's more like, "don't swallow your own shit."

edit: I suppose we should all follow that one too.

[stuck_here@c.im]

@CppGuy @fesshole

Does security prevent USB drives? You could always do a portable web browser with uBlock Origin installed if they do.

[cppguy@infosec.space]

@Stuck_Here @fesshole

Yep, I'm not allowed to do that. But I am allowed to use WSL.

[stuck_here@c.im]

@CppGuy @fesshole

That's sweet. Which distro of Linux are you running in it? And the security allows for Linux programs to be installed? That's definitely a solution!

[dmtomas@mastodon.social]

@fesshole I met my former classmate about 12 -13 years ago for a beer and he was developer for the biggest add-tech company in the country - asked “how does it feel to be in the heart of darkness”… he did not understood the question;)

[countholdem@mastodon.social]

@fesshole The Minus-Freedom has gone viral, cause of #TechBros #greed.

Now if you invent an Exponential-Eraser of said Bros, let us knows.

[karamazov1879@mastodon.social]

@fesshole Well, ain't that fucking ironic & hypocritical, but not entirely unexpected.

[roblosricos@mastodon.social]

@fesshole

anyone need further proof that online advertising is a waste of time, space, and resources?

[meduz@m.nintendojo.fr]

@fesshole At previous jobs (as a web developer), it took me 6 months before learning we had ads on the website maintained by my team.

One day someone asked the team to change the script related to ads. That’s how I learned about it. I was shocked.

[flawgren@mastodon.nu]

@csolisr But what if the product is drugs?

[paneerakbari@mas.to]

@fesshole "I saw the best minds of my generation optimizing for ad clicks"

[cppguy@infosec.space]

@Stuck_Here

I use #Fedora — same as at home.

But #WSL seems to have a bug. Unlike the case where you run it on Fedora on bare metal or in a conventional VM, certain elements don't render properly, and so I've found i have to set an environment variable to disable the use of Wayland.

@fesshole

[endicottauthor@mastodon.social]

@fesshole Seems like a great deal of irony to me.