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0 points4gotunameagain8mo ago0 comments

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 ;)

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m4rtink8mo ago

Would be quite different if they patched it and broke important extensions, possibly facing serieous outcry and bad publicity.

deryilz8mo 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.

userbinator8mo ago

At that point it's a feature, not a bug.

Having millions of users on your side is great ammunition.

rollcat8mo ago

Important extensions like, dunno, uBlock Origin?

eddythompson808mo ago

Yeah, surely if chrome broke important extensions people will get mad and switch.

devnullbrain8mo ago

That's what they already did.

_feus8mo 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.

lucb1e8mo 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

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