David L. Jones is an Australian video blogger.[2][3] He is the founder and host of EEVBlog[4] (Electronics Engineering Video Blog), a blog and YouTube channel targeting electronics engineers, hobbyists, hackers, and makers.[2][5] His content has been described as a combination of "in-depth equipment reviews and crazy antics".[2]
Before becoming a full-time blogger, Jones worked on FPGA boards for the EDA company Altium.[6]
According to Jones, he began publishing electronic design project plans in electronics DIY magazines like Electronics Australia in the 1980s.[2] In recent years,[when?] several of his project articles appeared in Silicon Chip.[7]
Jones is also the founder and co-host of The Amp Hour,[4] an electronics engineering radio show and podcast.
Jones' EEVBlog YouTube channel was created on 4 April 2009.[8][2] The channel features in-depth equipment reviews and electronics commentaries.[2] Jones has posted over 1000 episodes.
In a mid-2015 video, Jones disputed the claims of an unreleased battery life extender called Batteriser (later called Batteroo Boost after a lawsuit by Energizer). Batteroo, the company behind the product, disputed the arguments put forth by Jones and others, and published a number of demonstration videos in response.[9] In the wake of Jones' video about Batteriser, his video was "disliked" by a torrent of IP addresses located in Vietnam.[10] Other bloggers with related videos experienced similar activity from addresses in Vietnam. The bloggers involved have suspected that either a click farm in Vietnam was engaged to harm the reputations of those attacking the claims about the product, or that a single computer with many fake or stolen YouTube accounts utilized proxied IP addresses to cover its tracks.[11] Due to the anonymous nature of the attacks, it remains unknown who was responsible.[12]
I started by taking stuff apart and trying to figure out how they worked.
...received hundreds of dislikes on his 30 August video debunking a product called Batteriser, which claims to greatly extend the life of alkaline batteries.
Dave Jones' EEVblog, came under attack after having published a series of videos debunking a product claiming to vastly extend the life of alkaline batteries.
Neither can one blame Batteriser, whatever one thinks of the circumstantial evidence...