David L. Jones is an Australian

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ger. He is the founder and host of ''EEVBlog'' (''Electronics Engineering Video Blog''), a

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and

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targeting electronics engineers, hobbyists,

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, and makers. His content has been described as a combination of "in-depth equipment reviews and crazy antics".

Life

Before becoming a full-time blogger, Jones worked on

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s for the

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. According to Jones, he began publishing electronic design project plans in electronics DIY magazines like ''

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'' in the 1980s. In recent years, several of his project articles appeared in ''

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''. Jones is also the founder and co-host of ''The Amp Hour'', an electronics engineering radio show and

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''EEVBlog''

Jones' ''EEVBlog'' YouTube channel was created on 4 April 2009. The channel features in-depth equipment reviews and electronics commentaries. Jones has posted over 1000 episodes.

Batteriser incident

In a mid-2015 video, Jones disputed the claims of an unreleased battery life extender called

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(later called Batteroo Boost after a lawsuit by

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). Batteroo, the company behind the product, disputed the arguments put forth by Jones and others, and published a number of demonstration videos in response. In the wake of Jones' video about Batteriser, his video was "disliked" by a torrent of IP addresses located in Vietnam. Other bloggers with related videos experienced similar activity from addresses in Vietnam. The bloggers involved have suspected that either a

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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

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es to cover its tracks. Due to the anonymous nature of the attacks, it remains unknown who was responsible.

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