That's true. I suppose there's a certain amount of trust required. I really only ever disable it on sites that have a good track record with security and provide me enough value. There is risk involved though.
I suppose for their whitelist/blacklist to work with regex matching the ads would have to be served from a similarly named domain. Like facebook.com vs ads.facebook.com, and you'd have to whitelist *facebook.com. And if they were getting ads externally you'd have to whitelist those ads for every site that you visit.
I disable my adblocking for sites that use reasonable ads.
If I go to a site and am bombarded with pop ups, auto playing video ads, etc., then yeah why wouldn't I block them? With the malware and tracking that is often injected into ads I have no problem using my adblocker at all times and disabling it for pages that ask politely.
I'm happy to click on ads on sites that I frequent and would like to support. I think there's absolutely a balance here, and for many years the advertising industry has abused their stay.
You mention putting purpose over profit, but I assume you still make a reasonable living doing this from the sounds of things. Is this your only job currently? What's the tech stack like?
A lot of people come for the atmosphere and other festivities. I'm sure the actual number of people visiting town for the game is closer to 200k than it is to 50k.
No, they just asked what it's like working as a contractor. They said they were offered a job through a company similar to what I was employed through.
I contracted for about 8 months through a large staffing firm. A few things I liked:
* Hours were fairly flexible
* Not too much supervision, was mostly given things to work on and expected to finish them in a certain amount of time
* Didn't get pulled in to as many meetings in the office
* The pay was excellent
Some things I didn't like:
* No/little vacation/pto/sick
* If you don't work, you don't get paid (if you're paid hourly)
* No/little job security. I was around for 2 rounds of layoffs and had a young child at home, so this wasn't ideal
At the end of the day it made more sense for me to go back to a normal employment role due to family and a few other factors with job security. I did enjoy my time as a contractor though. Enough so that I still pick up hours through some old employers occasionally.
The logos are being provided free of charge to an open source project of the communities choice. I don't really see how that's contradictory, they make no claim of the logos being open source.
In the article it says he's still paying a mortgage and his wife is disabled. So I would imagine there are quite a few medical expenses on top of that.
He was stocking shelves, but he was also an absolute stud in the arena football league and went on to lead the league in touchdowns in NFL Europe. Might be one of the only NFL Europe success stories that I know of. I'm a Rams fan and share the same alma mater as Kurt, so I'm extremely biased, but he definitely has one of the best stories in football in my opinion.