valaramech

If the adverts are completely optional, this is the best way to do it. “Here, if you watch this ad we’ll give you free shit!” is way more likely to get me to watch whatever it is, but “You will watch this ad or you won’t get to play anymore” is the fastest way to get me to uninstall.

Pfff, all these amateurs here using Vim. Y’all should use Emacs. You still have all of these problems, but you get to act all superior about it. /s (except for the superiority complex; that’s real)

There are places to work that aren’t complete dogshit, but you do have to avoid FinTech, FAANG, and probably anything with a lot of VC funding. You will make less money, but at least you won’t be asked to do morally reprehensible shit on the regular.

Some of my best experiences have actually been at non-tech companies with small IT teams for internal shit. Biggest team I’ve ever worked on was 30 devs and that’s probably about the largest team I’d want to work with.

EDIT: This does assume you’re working in the States which is a dumb assumption for me to make. I’m not familiar with the culture outside of the states, but I imagine it’s better than here.

I think the biggest problem is that the idea of copyright is good, but the implementation - in most places, anyways - is complete dogshit.

Like, I’m fairly certain the original implementation of copyright in the US only lasted 10 years or thereabouts. Like, that’s more than enough time to profit off whatever you made but short enough that it’ll be usable by others within their lifetimes. This whole “life of the author + 100 years” shit needs to die.

I use uMatrix (uBlock’s big brother), so sites that do this generally lose first-party JS privileges real fast.