For the record, I didn’t bring up a bounty, but I still received payment. It helps that it is a small company, and that the CEO is also a developer. They were so grateful for the discovery that the bounty was freely offered without me asking.
Interestingly, I didn’t have to circumvent any security measures to uncover the vulnerability. They had a page that was leaking api keys - all you had to do was watch the network requests. That’s why I chalk it up to luck and not my prowess in cyber security.
There is no meme police and nobody uses the term image macro.
I would argue that memes aren’t necessarily meant to be funny. I think the most important component of a meme is its composition, which is usually a square image with optional text. But yeah, I completely agree with your broader points.
Maybe you should just try being lucky. I found a critical security vulnerability while working on my scraping project. I told them, they paid me and gave me written permission to scrape.
This is somewhat hateful of you to say, and it’s also false. People don’t take joy in feeling angry, and feeling angry doesn’t make you feel powerful. Anger can feel a lot better than sadness, embarrassment, and fear because it externalizes the cause of your emotional state. Anger is reinforcing because it displaces those other negative emotions. They aren’t getting angry because they enjoy it. It’s just a coping mechanism.
I used to struggle with this type of road rage myself. It started out with occasional shouting at other drivers and slowly grew to a near constant state of anger whenever I was driving a car. It felt awful. There was no part of me that liked it. In my case, the anger was almost always a reaction to feeling scared about being late. I got over it by making sure I always left with extra time to spare.
Source: trust me bro
Middle managers don’t get to pocket any of the unspent budget. That’s crazy talk.
It is good enough. I wouldn’t have cared if they did make paid users opt out. I think it’s a courtesy to their paid users, not an attack on their free users, that they allow paid users to opt in instead of opting out.
Also, there’s no way they developed a whole separate system for this. It’s likely a single line boolean check.
That’s fair, but that’s just a service quality complaint. It doesn’t sound to me like you are claiming they are doing “a bad thing”, as a moral value judgement.
I disagree about what the bare minimum is. It’s not uninformed. They tell you about it, and tell you you can opt out. I don’t really see how that would be them doing it without permission.
The right thing is to make it opt-in for everyone
How is that the right thing? I’m directly challenging this claim.
All I said was that free users cost them money, so it’s reasonable for them to try to recover those costs. I never claimed that free users are a drain on them, so I won’t even respond to the rest of your comment.
This may be controversial, but trying to collect the data of your free users to offset the costs of the infrastructure/resources needed to support the free users is not a bad thing - especially when you give those users an option to opt-out.
You make it sound like their goal is to do bad things. That’s not true. Corporations are not good or evil, they are amoral. They don’t care if what they are doing is good or bad - it just matters if they make money.
they’re free to just do the right thing completely
What exactly would that entail?
That’s fair, but I was thinking in the context of meme communities like this one in which nearly all of the posts are images.