There are links in the actual article being discussed here.
CileTheSane
joined 1 year ago
"I'd rather be told to 'have a nice day' by someone who doesn't mean it than be told to 'go fuck yourself' by someone who does."
I don’t know how any advertiser (or user) could have any faith in that platform anymore.
For the advertisers they know it's full of rubes who will easily fall for their scams. Hence the cryptocurrencies.
Ok hear me out: If I am downloading an add-on for the explicit purpose of watching youtube, then I am not interested in being told by the add-on not to use it. If I want to watch less youtube I will, and I know this sounds novel: I will watch less youtube.
If I want helpful life tips I will go look for helpful life tips on my own. If I want to be told youtube sucks then I already know youtube sucks. I don't understand why the fuck, when the entire purpose of me installing an add-on is to block a site from showing me things I didn't ask for, you keep trying to convince me to have the add-on show me things I did not ask for. The defeats the entire fucking purpose of me getting it in the first place.
I have stated this as clearly as I can multiple times. I am done trying to explain it any further.
How much work they were getting done is explicitly, pointedly NOT the metric they were fired for.
Why would a mouse jiggler be effective for any reason unless it was a metric being measured?
What if I offer you an add-on that would promote healthy life-habits instead of black screen? Would you be interested in that?
No. I want to watch the thing I specifically decided to watch, and not what someone else wants to advertise to me.
Let me simplify this for you: If I'm getting an addon to stop seeing ads, I'm not going to choose an addon that replaces them with other ads. I will choose the addon that doesn't give me ads.
The only people who would even consider such an addon are not the target audience for the ads because they already support it.
I use Jellyfin because it's pretty light weight and straight forward. Just add the shows you want to a playlist, or even just specific seasons, and shuffle play.
What if we replaced their ads with our ads? What do you mean that defeats the purpose?
Or at the very least detect when you can't skip and mute the tab and put a black box over top of the video.
So is my work measured by how much I move the mouse? In my job if I used an automatic mouse jiggler it would have zero effect on my employment, because I'm not being employed to move my mouse, I'm being employed to do productive work.
It's insane that such a program was useful. If your boss doesn't know the difference between you working or not, and only knows how much your mouse moves, that is a shit boss who is terrible at their job.
They asked for a source in the comments about an article that has sources. RTFA.