I made the comment to make people aware that it should still be looked at with caution, as corporations are going to try to game the system.

You're right, actually conforming to the standard is no easy feat, but luckily, you can do the bare minimum[0] and continue your greenwashing processes.

[0] https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/nes...

I discovered a classmate was involved in some event, and found the event's website. They didn't have a captcha. By your logic, this was the right choice.

In reality, my dumb ass decided it would be fun to script something that would register millions of users (another classmate ran the script with me). After a few hundred thousand registration, the website was brought to its knees. I was a bit shook, but didn't think much of it.

Next morning I come into class, and was reprimanded by my teacher. Turns out, the owner of said event had threatened to sue the school and me, among other things. What had happened was their servers were down, their email server was brought to its knees, their web servers had died, and generally I had caused a lot of damage without even thinking about it. It caused them to potentially lose some money. None of this was my intention, of course, but I didn't know much better.

Point is, kids will kid, and spammers will spam. There are plenty of bots that just scrape the internet and fill out forms indiscriminately.

Captcha may or may not be the best option here (I'm always of the opinion it's not, especially not reCAPTCHA), but something has to be put in place, even if to stop the majority of bad actors.

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It's very obvious their aim isn't necessarily charging, they're more interested in getting rid of 3rd party clients so that people would be forced to use their horrendous app. As a company, they have a right to go towards that route, but they should just say that.

This seems to be a common thing with all kinds of companies, Digg, Facebook, many others. It's not like you can't build ads into the current site, right? Tracking can be easily built-in these days. Sure it'll decrease initial download speeds, but the UX won't be as terrible as what they keep coming up with.

Welcome to reality, where this is not the case.

I'm currently working at a company where we're using TF and ECS, and app specific infra is supposedly owned by the service developers.

In reality, what happens is devs write up some janky terraform, potentially using the modules we provide, and then when something goes wrong, they come to us cos they accidentally messed around with the state or whatever. DNS records change. ALB listener rules need to change.

- Setting up certs (managed as TF) - Setting up ALBs (managed as TF) - Setting up the actual service definition (often done as a JSON, that is passed into TF)

Possibly other things I'm forgetting.

Some other things. It requires a *developer* to know about certs and ALBs and whatever else.

With EKS, this can all be automated. The devops engineer can set it up so that deploying a service automatically sets up certs, LBs etc. Why are we removing such good abstractions for a proprietary system that is *supposed* to be less management overheads, when in reality, it causes devs to do so much more, and understand so much more?

But you don't though, do you? "Vegan cheese" isn't cheese. Instead, it's a bunch of ingredients to make it feel and taste like cheese, but it's not cheese. Often it doesn't feel or taste like it, it barely comes close, and they can be worse for your health than cheese itself might be.

For milk alternatives, it's even worse. It's just a money printing machine. Much higher profit margins compared to milk for some lies and a vastly inferior taste and less nutrition.

Don't get me wrong, I've reduced my dairy intake considerably, so I'm all for dairy alternatives, but these companies are on the border of lying, and governments need to take action against them.

Sounds like you're about to start a Radio station for the nation.

Spinning one up is easy, sure. Making sure it's production ready, is not so much.