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> but apparently money makes people do anything. I don't see the link with your example. How would people profit of finding the number of dislikes on YouTube?
by charles_f 5y ago
> but apparently money makes people do anything.
I don't see the link with your example. How would people profit of finding the number of dislikes on YouTube?
Also, sharing this would increase the number of users of the exploit, and its general publicity, making it more likely to be fixed. Nothing to do with having each other's back.
And then, considering that you are disclosing a security leak, the "having each other's back" thing to do here is disclosing that to google, not exploiting it yourself
- Uehreka 5y agoThis post is doing a great job at smoking out the narcs.
- charles_f 5y agoSh*, I've been uncovered!
- enumjorge 5y agoI assumed the OP meant that sharing it here would mean someone on the YT team would see it and fix it. As opposed to having their hacker ethos win out and let the bug stay I guess?
- behnamoh 5y agoThanks, yes, that's what I meant.
- jayd16 5y agoYeah, the leap here is that OP assumes the dislike change is inherently bad, or universally disliked outside of some minority at Youtube that also doesn't read HN. Why would money need to be the main motivator?
- pddpro 5y agoI know that it would be a pretty biased response but do Corporates not make large decisions only when they think that it'll make them more money? Removing dislike metrics sounds like a supremely large decision.