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Putting aside the technical aspect, the tone of this post feels familiar to me.

In one of my earlier roles, I was responsible for a system used to filter internet access for about a million school students. The students were absolutely easily able to bypass our filtering in a bunch of ways we could not address, as we had no control over the client devices.

Being a team of professionals in a situation where we were constantly being defeated by a bunch of kids felt humiliating, even as we acknowledged the uneven battleground we were fighting on.

I suspect a similar feeling was behind this blog post. Why else say things like "as much as we might like the idea of an ever-escalating appsec war with teenagers"? This comes off as bitter and insincere to me. As though they're trying to put down their adversary while simultaneously acknowledging they're losing the battle and need to deploy the nuclear option.

Edit: not that "teenager" is necessarily a put down. If there's one thing I learned from that job, it's that teenagers are incredibly resourceful.

DashCamOwnersAustralia has destroyed the productivity of too many of my work days.

"I'll just watch one while I eat lunch" is a slippery slope.

I'm curious. Could you explain why you feel this way?

I can understand the desire to be able to vet code that a website wants to run on your device. I don't see why that preference should create an imperative for websites to either accommodate you or be banned from the internet.

This is bad advice, and I hope OP ignores it.

Having a degree when you're looking for your first SW role almost certainly will improve your chances.

Not having a degree won't help, particularly when you have no professional experience, but it's not the end of the world.

I suspect this is a reference to the "press f to pay respects" meme. I read it as a jocular expression of sympathy for the Amazon employees, playing on the single character point.