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Re:Another Fired Google Employee Claims They Were Targeted f... by tyingq on Sunday January 05, 2020 @10:36AM (#21961667)
It's somewhat curious to me that neither she not Google are spelling out exactly what was changed in the code.

The "policy notifier" existed already as an internal use Chrome plugin. It apparently had a list of sites that would merit it popping a policy reminder.

So, she clearly mapped a policy reminder for that website. But, elsewhere in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961447) it's suggested that she also made a special rule to show it every time for that site, where other sites would only show it on first visit.

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Re:Another Fired Google Employee Claims They Were Targeted f... by sp332 on Sunday January 05, 2020 @11:02AM (#21961830)
Google claims that she was fired for violating security policies, not for being annoying. So neither side is claiming that was the reason.
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Re:Another Fired Google Employee Claims They Were Targeted f... by tyingq on Sunday January 05, 2020 @11:03AM (#21961839)
They claimed change management policy as a reason, so I was curious if any code actually changed.
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Re:Another Fired Google Employee Claims They Were Targeted f... by CydeWeys on Sunday January 05, 2020 @10:59AM (#21961806)
That's just a config option on the notification whether it shows every time or once per month or whatever.
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Re:Another Fired Google Employee Claims They Were Targeted f... by tyingq on Sunday January 05, 2020 @11:02AM (#21961832)
So there wasn't a "code change" per se, then? She just pushed a config file or similar?
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Re:Another Fired Google Employee Claims They Were Targeted f... by CydeWeys on Sunday January 05, 2020 @02:07PM (#21963192)
I think so. Note that there's likely not a huge distinction between the two, because Google uses some pretty complicated configuration languages that are often Turing complete (e.g. Blaze essentially allows arbitrary Python). It's all checked into the one true monorepo as well.
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