I'm "going so hard" on this because you and the rest of the folks here are spinning so hard you're basically lying. You, at least, cite sorces. But your sources are attacks on the product. No one can do this on their own, you need resources and luck and the right combination of stuff. And... maybe it works, and maybe it doesn't. But it probably doesn't, the proof being that no one is getting unmasked/pwned/embarassed by this stuff.

The bottom line being that what you have amounts to a plausible security flaw. Which the market has been treating as such, reasonably effectively.

Yet you are all claiming that Google is literally offering "here's user data for sale at a price". Which they are not and never have. And that's not the same thing, and you know it.

It's one thing to claim a company's product is bad or insecure. It's quite another to lie about them. And fine, that produces a (sigh) "reactionary and emotional outburst". HN used to be so much better about rational discourse. Now it's all about who our enemies are.