Spotify is facing a privacy controversy as users allege that their private playlists were made public without their consent. This situation, similar to a previous issue, has raised concerns about an ongoing privacy problem. Users took to Twitter and Spotify’s community forums to report the unexpected change, with one user calling it an “absolutely unacceptable privacy violation.”
Why is it so hard to spend at least a few minutes on how a change will impact privacy before implementing the change to millions of paying customers and without even informing them.
Because, in general, the dev and the code reviewer(s) can’t accurately predict the impact of the changes. It’s a consequence of having a massive and complex code base. Now, best practices say that they should have automation in place that runs before the pull request can be approved, that tests against regression and unintended consequences. But, far too often, these things are deprioritised by management because of the “ship it now, we’ll fix it later” mindset.
To put it more succinctly, infinite profit growth is the reason everything is shit.
So you’re telling me capitalism causes things to be shit? Who woulda thunk it!!!?
I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you!!!