> Like, a corporation had a weakness you could exploit to get free/cheap thing. Fair game.
From a pure hacker perspective, I'm surprised there are people calling a legitimate usage a "weakness you could exploit"?
What weakness? What exploit? People have been using it in a way that was technically possible. And they paid for it, many purchased the product specifically because of it.
Then Google unilaterally changed the TOS of a product people already purchased and started pulling the rug. And again, there are people who call themselves hackers who approve of that? Even worse, they call people calling out Google for their monopolistic behavior whining.