350: Cangaroooooo!
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Tech don't care; more unintended consequences; FTC, DOJ mull tech antitrust; blitzup bop; Hyperloop, scaled down; Apple news; iTunes is dead, finally; YouTube's pedophilia algorithm is a feature, not a problem; Deadwood wrap-up; Good Omens; Britpop; Factfulness; feedback loop.
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| 0:30.4 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schelmeister. Guess what I woke |
| 0:36.8 | up to this morning, Brian? Dog in your face? Well, besides that. Okay. Nice little FU from Amazon. They |
| 0:43.4 | decided to cancel my affiliate account with no explanation and no reasons. And now I gotta go spend |
| 0:49.4 | God knows how long on the phone trying to figure out why. Are you still making a decent amount of |
| 0:54.9 | money from your affiliate account? I make about 30 bucks a pay period. We seem to make nothing |
| 1:01.2 | with ours. I don't know why. Yeah, nobody's clicking on anything anymore. But it's still annoying |
| 1:05.5 | because I've got tons of links out there and for them it's just free money. So I want to know why. |
| 1:10.2 | I mean, there's a chance that somebody's dicking around with me because I do have enemies. And I'm |
| 1:16.1 | just curious. I just have to go through the process. Now, so I'll let you know what the process is |
| 1:19.6 | on the next episode to try and get your affiliate account reinstated when Amazon just decides to |
| 1:24.7 | turn the sprinklers on. It's lovely that they do that. It's such a these tech companies. They just |
| 1:30.4 | it's so blatantly obvious they don't care. Like at first it was great. Amazon and enjoyed this. |
| 1:36.0 | It drove traffic towards Amazon and everybody got to share a tiny tiny tiny tiny little bit of the |
| 1:41.2 | wealth. And it worked for Amazon and it worked for everybody. But now they don't care anymore. And |
| 1:44.9 | they'll just shut down accounts and there's basically I'm sure you're going to find out the |
| 1:48.7 | process is excruciatingly stupid. Yeah. With most tech companies, I found any kind of process where |
| 1:53.8 | you need to get support or help involves tons of broken links because they don't really seem to |
| 1:57.6 | care too much about maintaining those parts of their sites. And I'm sure you're going to get a |
| 2:01.5 | very unsatisfactory answer and they may just switch it back on for you and not say well. |
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