professorseth

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by professorseth 5mo ago
Are you interested in sharing more details to make your claim more believable?
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by professorseth 11mo ago
Ya, your reasoning about why the text-only version was ok is what I heard as well. As far as people being on board with this--I did not have to push it through, it was a task that management wanted done that I happily did, because I could s
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by professorseth 11mo ago
You ask great questions. I definitely have regrets about my time working at Amazon. Specifically, I wish that I had pushed back more about doing certain things. Honestly, DRM wasn't even the worst. All the unnecessary user tracking was
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by professorseth 11mo ago
Yes and no. I actually wrote the code to make this work with screen readers, back when I worked for Kindle in 2018. I even got to test it out with a few Amazon employees who were blind, which was a really cool experience! We added some hidd
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by professorseth 11mo ago
thanks, I think its fixed now.
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by professorseth 11mo ago
It is, I promise :) Email in bio if you have other questions about it you care to ask.
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by professorseth 11mo ago
While Amazon does some shady stuff, at least _some_ of the blame here belongs on the big publishing companies. One of the big publishers put heavy pressure on Amazon to patch DRM exploits or else they would pull all their content from the p
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by professorseth 11mo ago
While Amazon does some shady stuff, at least _some_ of the blame here belongs on the big publishing companies. One of the big publishers put heavy pressure on Amazon to patch this exploit or else they would pull all their content from the
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by professorseth 11mo ago
You are exactly correct.
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by professorseth 11mo ago
I was on the team that wrote this code. We knew it was reverse-engineerable, we just didn't care. Upper management seemed happy enough that it was pretty obfuscated, and we were happy that they didn't force us to do more about it.
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by professorseth 11mo ago
I worked on the team that implemented this, years ago! (around 2017-2018) Upper management really enjoyed telling us (the engineers) that we needed to implement more DRM, and we liked complaining that it was dumb. Fun to see someone reverse