Facebook's Ad Block Blocker Gets Blocked, Knowing Your Worth as an Engineer, and more
Greg Leffler
Director of Developer Evangelism at Splunk. Former SRE Leader and Editor at Large at LinkedIn.
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Facebook boldly announced that it intended to immediately start forcing users who attempt to block their ads to see ads. In a move that stunned absolutely nobody, ad block software developers almost immediately released an update to the filter list to re-block Facebook's ads. Facebook makes nearly all its money from advertising, so I doubt they're going to go down so easily.
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Heidi Wang writes about how she started an organization called Girls Teaching Girls to Code, which does what it says on the label. Learn about how she went from idea to reality in her piece.
A story you may have missed is David Barrett's piece about how his company, Expensify, handles compensation and reviews, and why you might not want to work somewhere where you can get a raise by asking for one.
Speaking of compensation, Arthur Levy gives us a great overview of how to think about compensation and why it is critical that we as engineers understand how we are compensated and aren't shy to ask questions about it.
The adblock wars have no end in sight. Which side are you on, and why? Write a post and include the hashtag #AdblockWars for a chance to have it featured here.
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The solution to the ad blocking arms race might be for advertisers to accept that people don't want to see ads. Advertisers will need to come up with an even more clever (and subtle) way to manipulate us into spending money. Don't worry, they'll totally figure it out ;-)
Electronic Engineering Consultant at Nomadic Engineering
8yMr Braswell, More along the lines of Tin Men, selling aluminium siding. Take care and be safe pfb
IT Specialist|Cybersecurity, Cloud, Virtualization
8y... You don't want to hear my opinion on this matter. I want to throw my laptop out the window every time I
Advanced Linux Product Support
8yThe ad blocker war is just funny to me. I can see a hilarious tech comedy movie being made about it—a la John Belushi v. the gopher in Caddyshack.