• HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Exactly, headline should be more like “Google executives want Google engineers to make ad-blocking (near) impossible”

    • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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      1 year ago

      Isn’t Google famous for giving a large amount of creative freedom to their engineers (and having a lot of dead published products as a result)? Also, Google engineers are not exactly stuck at their job with little hope of finding anything else to survive.

      • ffolkes@fanexus.com
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        1 year ago

        I believe that policy was reduced or removed many years ago. Around the time when all the cool new projects stopped, and Google scrubbed “don’t be evil” from their site and company philosophy.