Surely that reinforces the argument - there are now a million LOC in a different language, needing stunning amounts of work to validate it actually functions? Writing the code has never been the bottleneck.

Writing code was definitely the roadblock in a rewrite like this.

Ublock origin blocks the ads entirely on Firefox.

They're talking about in video sponsor ads, and those can be skipped using SponsorBlock or similar.

Its the same people. They didn't just up and vanish, they just moved over to AI!

I'm not aware of a limit in my current role. There is, however, a leaderboard.

I used a tool called ArtMoney; apparently still actively developed and sold from an .ru domain.

That seems to be correct. You can see the hours disclosure here: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460...

*literacy is terribly low. Everyone using this site is blissfully inside a bubble of people who can at least read and write at a high school level.

I agree, wholeheartedly - lets get a list of the google engineers who worked on this. What do you propose we do with it?

I had more the thought like being skeptical of anyone who would take a job at company Foo or stay there, when they tell you. To me that seems preferable to trying to -- what risks devolving into -- a witch hunt of fall guys (persons), and doxxing people.

I think we are already starting to have that with a couple more infamous other companies in the news the last year: if someone goes to work there, I suspect a lot of people are going to think what is wrong with you, since you must know that company does very harmful things,

Maybe it's time to start wondering that about anyone who'd work for a lot of additional companies?

(I actually had a recruiter recently who was pitching a startup, and the headline featured the "ex-" pedigrees of the founders, including an especially infamous company. I figured any company touting that pedigree as a selling point is probably a bad fit for me. I thanked the recruiter, but said that infamous company as selling point probably isn't a fit. The recruiter seemed to not only understand, but to agree with my vague sentiment about that pedigree company.)

Spread the word. They need to be held accountable the same way elected officials are --- except in this case they're not even elected.

Probably not hellbanned, maybe spam filters gone wrong. I vouched them back into the land of the living :)

Thank you :)

I doubt many people here download any ads in a day.