1984 right here.

I feel like the can opener in the Flintstones.

I’m an admin in Google Ad Manager for a few hundred sites. Saying that to say I’ve read a lot of their documentation. They have a great graph showing this very concept. Less ads, less money, happy users. More ads, more money, unhappy users. They’re aware. They aren’t pouring the poison. They’re designing the pitcher and selling different size cups.

Was super obvious last year when Israel was running ads on blogs about their occupation. Super cringe AI stuff.

Maybe they’re in the same pickle my company is in. We’re having to migrate from edgecasr to akamai before noon tomorrow.

Wish I could. Have to admin a bunch of brands on it though.

Wish I could. My job has me knee deep in it everyday trying to keep up with all this.

Only issue is that I have a team of developers and none of them are extremely proficient in it. It’s not really a language we use often.

That’s actually reassuring to hear. Aside from Chilli, it’s the only program I’ve ever used (12 years going). I’ve got teamates pushing for changes but jira comes at a high cost. Redmine may look old and I hate that it’s written on ruby, but it’s free and with some plugins it’s been able to suite our needs well.

Only ever used Redmine.

Index/match crew checking in.

Crossfit

I really don’t want to be here if it happens. Full stop.

“I’m a human being god damnit. My life has value.”

… Until it doesn’t. It obviously doesn’t matter in the end, but I am here until that moment.

So choose absurdism. Is nihilism without the suicide.

Dress up like a yeehad and throw some Baja blast in a harbor. That’ll raise some suspicion.

We own a lot of “unique” sites with dedicated markets through out the US. Two sites in two separate markets have been getting hit hard with these DMCAs. No rhyme or reason to the content being suprezsed. In fact, the content is typically a decade old, paginated taxonomy, or ridiculously spamming page paths we don’t claim.

Stakeholders receive the same notices I do and think we should care. I don’t want to waste my time with the nonsense.

Scoops of the brain!

But my company absolutely has a dedicated target audience we boast about to potential advertisers.

It was how I scraped.