morgan423

The story is in the fact that they’re even asking.

Honestly, Google did this to themselves with not properly vetting the advertisers that they sell space to, and with oversaturation of ads.

If they’d have stopped granting ad space to scammers and malware spreaders, and if they’d have stopped adding advertisements at the line most people find tolerable (which seems to be a single ad between videos… not multiple at a time, and certainly no mid-rolls), they wouldn’t have triggered quite the level of ad blocking that they did.

I see this “problem” that they have as being entirely of their own making.

You do realize that the actual issue is that this is kind of thing is going to be normalized, so that it can spread like a plague across the corporate-touched internet, objectively making the entire thing as a whole objectively worse… right?

Because it sure doesn’t seem like it with that reply.

Save yourself the PR nightmare that accompanies data breaches! Prevent all outside hacking forever by proactively dumping your data onto the internet yourself!

It’s pure genius!

Any idea of why Unity did this?

I mean, they’ll generate some short term cash, sure, but they just lost their entire customer base. No developer of any size can take on the liability and risk of working with Unity again, even if Unity realizes how badly they screwed this up and reverts this.

Oh yes, it’s horrible.

At this point, I only have 2 subreddits that are periodically checked, and you’d best believe I use old Reddit to do so. Only a matter of time before they kill that off as well though.

Leagues like MLB make it really difficult to consume their content, with all the stupid side deals and blackout restrictions. Sometimes it’s like they force you to seek alternatives. Or, just not watch at all.

I could see this metaphor, sure.

Not like the dying (and nearly dead) mall of today… nowhere close.

But it’s like the times 20 years ago… the online retail space has been recently launched, and is starting to gain popularity… the mall’s days are now numbered, even though they haven’t lost many customers yet. The fatal bullet has been fired, and although it has a bit of travel time, it’s on its way.

And so it goes for Reddit.

No loss IMO. The moment a mod starts doing crap like that, the sub is dead to me anyway.