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On 3 September 2015 at 07:17, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote: |
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> Do you have specific examples? |
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None that I can currently recall, I've just long resigned myself from |
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trying to care with Google products. The instances I can recall were |
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more defects in their web services, some where there was literally no |
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place to go, and I just kept getting the feeling nobody cared. |
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eg: I found a coding defect in the Google Ads code that injected the |
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version string from whatever flash implementation you were using |
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verbatim inside an HTML Tags attributes without caring to escape it, |
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which meant if you had a competing implementation(eg: Gnash ) that |
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used a double-quote mark in its version string, Ad injection could |
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cause entire page layout to be broken. |
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Or for instance, when GMail overhauled their email service, despite |
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the pleas of developers to have a "Don't top-post by default" toggle |
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in the settings, the whole developer community was deemed unimportant |
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and that such a feature could never happen. |
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So now every time I reply to something, I have to fight with GMail to |
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make sure I highlight the whole message manually first, making sure |
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not to have my selector accidentally slip outside the email text, and |
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*then* hit reply, which makes it quote it instead. |
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The latter choice has been the one that stuck with me the most, |
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because I'm constantly feeling like I'm being slapped in the face by |
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it. |
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Granted these instances are not instances of "Software I run on my |
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machine", but they are still software to me. |
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