Message from JavaScript discussions
August 2018
— All the ad vendors do their things and pay us
It pisses me off because sometimes a page will load for a whole 60 seconds before being done thanks to a dumbass tracking pixel or some other ad related crap
— And I get alerts every time
— Normally it is some failure of the ad vendor, like DNS or connection failure, sometimes they straight up get infected by malware which takes over the entire website
— Jesus christ
— Just do adsafe?
— We use adsafe as well as a ton of other providers
— Rubicon, doubleclick, etc
— Nothing will stop the hackers man
— The internet is getting shittier and shittier and when you make your money with it, you roll around in the shit and just accept it
— So something like 4 million CNN readers being redirected to a fake Amazon ad for 4 months straight not only happens often, but is treated like any other issue
— I fucking hate this industry and media companies in general even moreso after working for one