Unity’s current CEO is an ex-exec from EA. but at least it looks like in 2021 they got around to replacing the CFO from 2015, who was previously also an EA ex-exec that was hired as such the year after the CEO was brought on board from EA. The hirings coincided with many rapid, scummy changes to their subscriptions and dev support. I expect many lies yesterday, today, tomorrow, and beyond as they now focus on squeezing their non-subbed devs

yes

Them hiring that EA exec as the chief financial officer, and another as their CEO, around the same time they stopped offering lifetime subscriptions near the end of Unity 4, while at the same time reworking their sub plans to pull back support for devs with recently-expired subs, should’ve been a massive red flag at the slippery slope they were aiming to go down

I think it’s pretty difficult to argue that eradicating polio isn’t good.

looks like someone really tried to rise to that challenge, though

fuck ajit pai

being the chairman of the FCC in the US between 2017 and 2021

me, who doesn’t care who’s to blame, wishing the issue was fixed by anyone

to reach there, you have to game the algorithm. to game it to that extent takes a whole lot of viewer manipulation

Captain’s Log: It is now minute two of hide and seek. Hunger is starting to set in, and I don’t know how much longer I can last before succumbing to starvation. I can only pray the others can find me in time.

when you get pulled in deep, no build ever feels perfect, and you keep chasing that dragon

and when they do, another will step up to take its place. such is the cycle of enshittification

but then I would be all out of fish

this is the type of comment I was looking for ITT. most of the others are just shy people that don’t realize most people would love to have conversations about niche hobbies someone can communicate any passion about.

if you bring this one up, the inevitable followup is either they awkwardly disengage from the topic, or they awkwardly ask to see what you’ve made

the idea of a smuggler physically hauling contraband copies of Firefox into France just tickles me

I don’t understand the downvotes, if I’m wrong or being misled about anything, I’d appreciate if someone chimed in

and just to be clear, I linked directly to the comment I was referring to, that highlighted one of the offers the Hover Zoom+ dev was sent on Jan.25, 2021:

We’d love to have redacted sponsor Hover Zoom+ in a similar manner to how we’re partnering with Dark Reader. See attached for how that partnership has come to life, but we’re honestly super flexible on implementation. We’d essentially love to pay you in exchange for helping us drive users to redacted.

the parent to that comment links to the Hover Zoom+ dev’s public listing of every ad company offer he’s received from 2015 to 2023, found at https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

Could be coincidence, but I wonder if it has anything to do with the tracking that external ad companies lamprey’d onto it, that I recently saw mentioned over at https://lemmy.ml/comment/2594831

I feel like this should made as a stickied post, from how often I’ve seen the quote come up, and the correction.

edit: or a bot that comments about when the motto was dropped on any post that mentions google.

[starts taking notes]

I thought I was being hit by a turning point meme for a sec

no doubt about that look, it just farted