€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs

Re:€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key ... by benoau on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:04AM (#47793153)

Your kid can do this in a smartphone game designated suitable for children, heavily optimized to exacerbate the possibility, and depending on where you live they can just choose not to refund you.

When the FTC went investigating a decade-ish ago they found Facebook saying the quiet parts out loud: it was all extremely deliberate.

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Re:€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key ... by Leomuck on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:07AM (#47793185)

Used to be parents were annoyed by their kids for spending 100$ on SMS credits.. lol.

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Re:€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key ... by Barbing on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:26AM (#47793456)

I long for the days where kids were only hurting their parents' wallets and not themselves.

>Another prompt asked, "What do you think of me," I say, as I […]. My body isn't perfect, but I'm just 8 years old - I still […]."

Pretty odd to copy from policy documents and feel a need to self-censor. But I guess that's Mark Zuckerberg[‘s chief ethicist] for you.

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