Schwim Dandy@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•API Misuse: Hacker Leaks 2.6M Duolingo Users' Emails & Names
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1 year agoWell, I use a fake name and an email used only for Duolingo, so… ok.
Well, I use a fake name and an email used only for Duolingo, so… ok.
I remember as a kid, seeing a commercial for a credit card where the clown of the ad tried to use cash, inconveniencing the mob behind him and it really stuck with me how unapologetic credit companies were when training their consumers and debt carriers.
Oh no, not 100k. How will they ever scrape up that kind of money?
What did Gizmodo think might happen instead? That everyone, including those that were never impacted by 3rd party app changes, would just abandon the site, leaving it without users? “Peak journalism”.
Rather than rely on an extension, I think I would add the publicly listed up ranges to my hosts file. That will blackhole any connections where a browser extension wouldn’t actually stop anything until it was being processed by the extension.