Incredible.
Yes, they’ve said that it felt weird to use an adblocker while their company depends on ad revenue and they didn’t want to “hurt themselves”
CS majors and software engineers working at high profile tech companies like the ones I listed and many more generally put a lot of their self worth and sense of identity with what employer they work at because of the prestige and social status. Hence the massive bootlicking and thinking their company’s interests are the same as theirs
that level of idealism and ingroup identification likely forms the foundations for most movements, the sad thing is that those people chose to place their faith in glorified ad companies
honestly believe that the real reason engineers get taken out behind the shed and shot after 30 is because that is when they tend to grow out of this type of stupidness
Imagine a McDonald’s employee thinking “eh, I’m really more of a Wendy’s kinda guy, I don’t ever really wear McDonalds” and then feeling bad about it and ordering a big Mac on his day off. As though it’s some sort of failing of the employee if they’re company makes tons of money on everybody except for them.
