I'm currently at Indeed Japan and I'm pretty sure I can make ~300k as an IC in 1 promo or >>300k as an IC in 2 promos. Of course, at the corresponding level at Facebook in Menlo Park, I'd make 200k+ more...
Its funny how our brains have a kind of built in adblocker named banner blindness. There have been a few times I was unable to understand a UI because the important part was rectangle and too prominent so I ignore it entirely without realizing it.
Why do you think advertisers moved to moving ads, ads that fade in over the page once you scroll a little and can be assumed to be focusing on the page, reading? Autoplay video that moves down to the picture-in-picture corner? The more annoyingly distracting the ad is, the better. Or so advertisers think.
If you really wanted to avoid dupes you could just hash the pics, save a list of hashes in a txt and then lookup against new ones, but it's less efficient than what OP proposes.
Playing devil's advocate but wouldn't the effects have been causing problems in the past as well. The "man up" attitude has been going on for much longer than a single generation. Also do you know of any stats or papers looking at possible connections? Genuinely curious.
IMHO debian comes closer. I like to install the server version and then install gnome-core on top of that, sort out the dependencies of what I need and I'm golden.
You make it sound easy! How do I do that outside of not just SF, but the US?