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say rule to end commercial (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[-] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago

I once worked for one of the largest media companies in my country and there was a project where they wanted to replace reCaptcha with a partner's system that made users watch ads and ask a question about the ad instead of typing some hard to read text.

Testing such system, I quickly realized that the captcha part of it could easily be bypassed by anyone with minimal JS knowledge (the answer was available in a global JS var), but the answer would not be accepted by the server unless the entirety of the ad video had been successfully streamed to the video component.

I still remember clearly the response I got when I reported to the PO that the system was unfit due to being easily bypassed with JS:

"no user is gonna be coding anything just to avoid typing the answer on the input".

Shouldn't have expected much more from the same company that had me wait for the responsible person to get back from their 1-month vacation when I reported that their customers' full credit card information was included in the output of a publicly available URL that only required an order ID.

But I later found out that most orders in that particular project were actually made by bots with stolen credit card information (the bots would use this company's shopping cart to validate which cards were still working so they could use it for something useful afterwards). In the end we were mostly just leaking information that had already been leaked before.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

So really you were just letting the world know about cc #s that had been leaked!

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Which company did you say you worked for?

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

It's a fight club quote

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

to elaborate on the reference in case you haven't seen or don't remember the movie, the scene has the protagonist explaining his job which entails calculating the cost of recalling a line of vehicles versus paying out wrongful death settlements at the rate that said vehicles have a deadly malfunction, and how if the latter is less they just don't do the recall. spacenoodle is quoting the listener's response when he finishes, and Atropos is quoting his reply.

Watch Fight Club if you haven't, it's an important one.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

A Media company owned by Telefonica.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Drink verification can

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

Sure but I'm gonna make McDonalds employees stand on the counter and say my name before I give them any money.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Eating McDonald's.. ew gross.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

haha i haven't had any in years since I can't eat gluten, but I got a random craving for their fries the other day, and I might just have to cave and get some.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

... Heisenberg!

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Ceetainly! Here is your name: SpaceNoodle

I hope this was helpful 😊

What would you like to order?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Would you like a side and a drink?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I'd go back to digging holes and playing with action figures, fuck that.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

this is what we should all be doing anyway. fuck tv.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Luckily it has been patented so the other companies can’t use this shit idea

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

I guess you can't watch television if you're deaf or mute then.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

No, but those people statistically have less disposable income, and less flexibility in their lives, so it's no great loss.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Here’s some more info for people (like me) who like a little context with their confusing patent diagrams: Snopes - Does a Sony Patent Propose Viewers Skip Commercials by Yelling Brand Names at TV?

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

the "show" being a crude drawing of a guy shooting another guy is a nice touch. gotta get that televised ultraviolence in! USA! USA! USA!

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