So this started coming up today. On every video. I can (so far) click the “x” and remove it to watch (still see 2 ads before the video, and one after 4 minutes - ruins music on YT), but did click the “Report issue” only for the dialogue box not to work.

I found a link to a that said 11% use adblock. Thats not a lot.Maaayyyybe there is a problem with the amount of ads youtube forces down our throats for even short videos. 🤷‍♂️

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    1 year ago

    I feel for the poor engineers who have to implement this stuff

    I don’t. They had every opportunity to do the ethical thing and refuse to implement it, but didn’t.

    On a related note, the industry norms need to be changed such that software engineers should be licensed Professional Engineers, should be unionized, or both.

    (I say this as a software engineer myself, by the way.)

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      1 year ago

      I also work in industry as a software engineer, tech lead, and occasional eng manager and haven’t seen anyone do this over several decades.

      I don’t think many people, software engineers included, are troubled by YouTube wanting to monetize their platform or defending their right to do so. It’s opting for such an easily bypassed method that makes this such a chore for the implementor.

      It’s also bold to assume they might not have suggested, prototyped or specced other solutions to this problem but were still tasked with this one for whatever reason. Either way, I’d rather assume good intent and high locus than assume they are “trapped” in to implementing software that defies their own moral beliefs.