• see cool video on front page
  • click
  • “Haha, fuck you, you’ve just clicked on the invisible button that takes up half the thumbnail like a fucking moron!”
  • redirected to the sponsorship info page
  • go back
  • video gone

why are you completely incapable of making a functional website you wet dildo

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    They’re just doing what they’re paid to do.

    What they’re paid to do is increase ad exposure to drive as revenue and YT premium subscriptions.

    General public UX is a distant tertiary goal, in terms of what’s actually on the Jira board (or whatever they use).

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        You need to understand that most software engineers are treated like code monkeys these days, and very often get overruled by product people going “idgaf just do the thing I said in the ticket”.

        Source: am software engineer, and have been for about a decade and a half