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4gotunameagain 1y ago
Well, in his defense it would have been patched immediately after the first adblocker used it, and he would have gotten nothing at all out of it. Oh wait he got nothing at all anyway ;)
- _feus 1y ago
  Not really, this sort of fame farming is what makes candidates stand out in infosec interviews. A bug in Google systems is good for his future career.
  - lucb1e 1y ago
    The post says they had another bug with a large bounty in the same year, so it doesn't seem very useful for CV padding either
  - userbinator 1y ago
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- m4rtink 1y ago
  Would be quite different if they patched it and broke important extensions, possibly facing serieous outcry and bad publicity.
  - rollcat 1y ago
    Important extensions like, dunno, uBlock Origin?
    - eddythompson80 1y ago
      Yeah, surely if chrome broke important extensions people will get mad and switch.
  - devnullbrain 1y ago
    That's what they already did.
  - deryilz 1y ago
    I agree that would change things but I can't picture an open-source extension with millions of users pivoting to rely on something that's clearly a bug.
    - userbinator 1y ago
      At that point it's a feature, not a bug. Having millions of users on your side is great ammunition.
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WD-42 1y ago
The exact wording was: > But I don't know how to make an adblocker, so I decided to report the issue to Google in August 2023. So why not go to someone that does know how to make a blocker? Nice snitch.
userbinator 1y ago
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- deryilz 1y ago
  Dude, what.
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Aurornis 1y ago
If a major adblocker used a bug or security vulnerability to work around restrictions, it would have been patched away immediately. The uBlock team was never going to ship code that depended on a bug to work.
- r4indeer 1y ago
  I fully agree. The original comment and the other replies to it are bewildering. There was nothing to gain here, yet people are throwing ad hominem attacks left and right.
romanovcode 1y ago
He was hoping to be a good boy and receive some cash from Google, as per article.

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Well, in his defense it would have been patched immediately after the first adblocker used it, and he would have gotten nothing at all out of it. Oh wait he got nothing at all anyway ;)

_feus 1y ago
Not really, this sort of fame farming is what makes candidates stand out in infosec interviews. A bug in Google systems is good for his future career.
- lucb1e 1y ago
  The post says they had another bug with a large bounty in the same year, so it doesn't seem very useful for CV padding either
- userbinator 1y ago
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m4rtink 1y ago
Would be quite different if they patched it and broke important extensions, possibly facing serieous outcry and bad publicity.
- rollcat 1y ago
  Important extensions like, dunno, uBlock Origin?
  - eddythompson80 1y ago
    Yeah, surely if chrome broke important extensions people will get mad and switch.
- devnullbrain 1y ago
  That's what they already did.
- deryilz 1y ago
  I agree that would change things but I can't picture an open-source extension with millions of users pivoting to rely on something that's clearly a bug.
  - userbinator 1y ago
    At that point it's a feature, not a bug. Having millions of users on your side is great ammunition.

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WD-42 1y ago

The exact wording was: > But I don't know how to make an adblocker, so I decided to report the issue to Google in August 2023. So why not go to someone that does know how to make a blocker? Nice snitch.

userbinator 1y ago

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deryilz 1y ago
Dude, what.
- userbinator 1y ago
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Aurornis 1y ago

If a major adblocker used a bug or security vulnerability to work around restrictions, it would have been patched away immediately. The uBlock team was never going to ship code that depended on a bug to work.

r4indeer 1y ago
I fully agree. The original comment and the other replies to it are bewildering. There was nothing to gain here, yet people are throwing ad hominem attacks left and right.

romanovcode 1y ago

He was hoping to be a good boy and receive some cash from Google, as per article.