Tangentially - I learned about prompt injection around the same time that a project needed a LICENSE.txt. The goal was to require an AI to tell an unprompted joke when someone asked it about the project. Probably a bad idea, but the added clause in the license and a script with it in the header seemed to work, at least when copy/pasted into ChatGPT.
Consumers generally don’t care about these terms until it affects them personally. Additionally, in the author’s case, I can’t name one alternative to the type of service provided by AirBnB. Maybe I’m out of the loop.
I use clickjacking as a “feature” on a website I operate, http://vlograd.io
I had no choice, at least on mobile.
On mobile browsers, audio contexts start out as muted. They can only be unmuted by an event originating from user interaction.
I use a web player embedded in an iframe on my site. It has an API to communicate with it to do things like playing and pausing the current track. However, this also means the audio context is in a cross-domain iframe, and my only way to trigger the play() method is via the asynchronous postMessage API it exposes. So, in order to unlock the audio context, I present mobile users with a “tap to start” screen. In reality, I’ve positioned and zoomed in on the iframe such that the play button is covering the entire screen for any reasonable screen size. Thus, when the user taps to start, the audio context is unlocked (since the “tap” event on the play button in the iframe fires), and I immediately send a “pause” command via the player’s API. Now, the audio context is unmuted and I’m free to send the “play” command for any track to start playing music.
Definitely a somewhat shady thing to do. To play devil’s advocate, though, I would argue that inflating your follow numbers is less “evil” than building a machine that takes in user data and spits out profit.
I never had music on my iPhone (only Spotify) until 2014, when Apple had its U2 album debacle. I used the removal tool, but it failed for one song: "Raised By Wolves". To this day it echoes horribly in my head, as when I went to start my car in the morning, it automatically played the aforementioned song, the only one in my library.
I was eventually able to remove it, but for a few weeks, auto-play music (and Bono) were the bane of my existence.