> Source: I did penetration testing for four years, also served in a cyber position in the military. What a giant waste of my time that whole effort was.
Americans adopt that narrative voluntarily when it comes to entrepreneurs, he doesn't need to interfere with the Wapo newsroom for that. (and to my knowledge hasn't).
WaPo has publicized quite a few articles critical of Jeff Bezos and Amazon, even after WaPo was acquired. So this is something that seems to be just another baseless "jeff bad" take.
The questions shouldn't focus on what he lets get printed - we still live in an age where journalism seems to have minimal consequences no matter the quality - but what happens if e.g. the WaPo Guild takes action in solidarity with an Amazon union.
>but what happens if e.g. the WaPo Guild takes action in solidarity with an Amazon union?
Luckily, we don't need to wonder, because WaPo has actually posted that kind of an article just yesterday, and it was extremely critical of Amazon's anti-unionization efforts [0]. The article's headline is "Amazon’s anti-union blitz stalks Alabama warehouse workers everywhere, even the bathroom". Even the headline itself wasn't sugarcoated or softened in the slightest.
This is not an especially a sympathetic article to either side, but I'm talking about things beyond the core remit of a newsroom. If Amazon workers strike, what happens if the WaPo Guild refuses to cross the picket line by accepting Amazon deliveries, using AWS, or run articles alongside Amazon ads?
There is a difference between "does not have editorial oversight" - which I believe - and "has no say in what can be published" - which is trivially false since as owner he could do anything from hire only sports reporters to shut the whole thing down if he wanted.
It might not be worth it for you, but it's definitely not greedy to charge that much. Always remember that your freelance rate should be double your full time rate (maybe more) so really it's like a $75/h job or $135k/y equivalent, and then there is the fragmentation of time mentioned, and the fact you have to mentor in real time (unlike coding you can wake up at 4am and get a bit done).
Therefore I think it's a reasonable price to charge. Whether it is worth $150/h to you (or your employer) I guess depends on the business. But if your company has say never used mongodb before (for example), it's not much to pay to get someone with all the battle experience to come in and get people up to speed rather than say have production outages as people didn't know what they were doing, or alternatively hiring someone full time at a cost of $200k just for their mongo expertise.
Does this number includes mobile browsers? Given the big mobile browsers do not have adblockers (or even extensions altogether?), that would explain it.
I don't use uBlock. But I learned how to write chrome extensions and it turned out extremely easy to insert my own CSS and JS snippets to the selected pages. So I just added few URL filters to remove most obnoxious tracking and ads, I added very few CSS edits to the selected websites to remove popups and I added some JS to youtube to remove its ads. Web is pretty fast and usable for me. I did not cut every ad, but I don't often browse new websites and I'm okay with some ads as long as they're not very bad.
The reason I don't use uBlock is because I think that it's overkill for me to run thousands of filters for every website in the world. And also I like the fact that I'm in control of my user agent. For example recently I turned off feature on some website which paused video when I switched to another tab. I did not like that feature, so I disabled corresponding JS handler, simple as that.
I don't use an ad blocker - I feel bad since ad revenue is the only thing most of these sites have (OTOH, I don't run ads on my own blog because I don't like what the ad-supported internet has become).
Almost all of them I assume? Browser ad blocking is much less widespread than people seem to think, otherwise there wouldn't be so many ~trillion dollar companies built around tracking and advertising on the internet.
Easier said than done.