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The coolhunters each had their own way of finding hits. Every morning, Harper scoured a list she’d assembled of blogs and internet arcana, searching for interesting videos. When she found ones worth putting on the homepage, she would add them to YouTube’s “Featured Videos” banner, which stacked small frames of videos in a column of 10. Her team swapped these slots every four hours, giving YouTubers behind the videos they selected a guaranteed cascade of views.

Just a Few People Crowned Some of YouTube’s Earliest Hits

Mark Bergen

Many people have asked me "why don't you just try to login with the credentials in the breach" and obviously this would be an easy test. But it would also be an invasion of privacy and depending on how you look it, potentially a violation of laws such as the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). In fact it would clearly constitute "having knowingly accessed a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access" and whilst I can't see myself going to jail for doing this with a couple of accounts, it wouldn't stand me in good light if I ever needed to explain myself.

Here's How I Verify Data Breaches

troyhunt.com

For comparison: I've never heard of a game getting kicked off of a console's store because of a "lack of updates". The stores themselves usually shut down eventually - which is its own problem - but at least there's a reasonable business argument for why the company can't be expected to offer that service indefinitely.

Apple says they're removing my game because it's more than 2 years old | Hacker News

keleftheriou

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