Yep. He took a massive ego trip early on and immediately came across as someone I don’t particularly want to side with.
I’m a web developer and fundamentally disagree with his take on what JavaScript can do on the client side. I see what he’s getting at but I think he’s wrong. JavaScript can certainly detect access to resources (ads in this instance) without violating any enforceable policies. Half the internet does error handling with JS for things that won’t load - how can this be construed as violating eprivacy? Nonsense.
That being said I’d love for this feature to go away and would be happy to see YouTube and Google go pound sand.. but this feels like a stretch. It was inevitable enshittification imo.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 8 months ago
How is it offputting to say “listen to me because I’m an expert, here’s my credentials”? Everybody’s so fast to claim “fake news” nowadays that demonstrating your credibility has become a requirement.
BaldProphet@kbin.social 8 months ago
The person he was responding to was asking for some specific clarification. Instead of offering it, he appealed to his own authority, essentially listing his credentials in a pompous way and then saying "You don't need to understand. I'm the expert, I'll understand it for you."
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 8 months ago
He’s answering to a person saying “IANAL” asking whether this really is illegal with “I am an expert on this particular law, helped to write its replacement and already had confirmation from DG Just (EU Commission) that the law applies in the way I have stated”. Seems perfectly apropos to me.
If you go to your lawyer and ask if you have a case and they say yes, do you ask them to walk you through evey single piece of applicable law or will you accept their service based on their credentials?
Not to mention that the guy has already made his argument earlier, they don’t need to repeat it over and over.
krellor@kbin.social 8 months ago
But he didn't cite policy, law, or legal analysis. I work as a technology policy writer/interpreter in the US so I can't address the EU issues. But I've never responded to someone who asked for the basis of my conclusion by listing my credentials. When I publish a policy position paper, I cite chapter and verse all relevant laws, policies, statutes, and explanation for interpretation. I've written entire pages offering justification for the interpretation of a single sentence a particular way. He didn't do that. He might be right, but he didn't justify it in any meaningful way.