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Grumpy Old Geeks

192: Bob Is Your Dark Uncle

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

News, Security, Web, Internet, Tech News, Tech, Comedy, Scams, Entertainment, Music, Lifestyle, Social, Code, Business, Society & Culture, Technology, Engineering

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2017

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Buzzfeed, what hath you wrought? Yahoo becomes Altaba; Verified God banned from Facebook; Unlimited data definition limited; Amazon misleads; paper drones; Trust us, we’re the Geek Squad; Big Picture; Viva Amiga; Bright Lights; Goat Yoga; CES of 💩. Show notes at http://gog.show/192 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason DeFilippo

0:07.5

discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

0:16.8

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks.

0:18.8

I am Jason DeFilippo and I'm here with my best just friends in the whole goddamn world.

0:23.2

Well, that's some pressure.

0:25.4

Haha, come on, bring it.

0:27.2

I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:28.2

How you doing, Jason?

0:29.2

Uh, peachy keen, peachy keen.

0:30.8

Let's, let's kick this mofo off.

0:33.2

Okay.

0:34.2

Well, last week we talked a little bit about how our, our best friend, Ev Williams, uh,

0:39.8

Mr. Twitter and then who went on to medium.

0:43.0

Uh, before that blogger, yes.

0:45.0

And before that blogger was pitching and moaning about how the system that he decided

0:48.2

to use for everything, digital ads is broken, uh, which we, I mean, all know, and we've

0:54.1

talked about for years and years, uh, uh, Fox basically agrees.

0:58.3

The guy in charge of the ads, uh, that you see on all web content for, uh, Fox ranging

1:03.0

from empire to Atlanta to the Super Bowl.

1:05.1

Uh, basically I said that, uh, you should use an ad locker because this stuff doesn't work.

1:09.8

Yeah.

1:10.8

It's an interesting take.

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