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It's not just that they're not cool, it's just that when you have billions of users, even if only 0.00001% takes the joke seriously it can lead to personal tragedy such as people losing their jobs.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/01/gmails-mic...

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To be fair, that's a horrible idea for an April fool's prank. Ideally, they shouldn't do any actual real harm. Like actually having that button work as they described was just stupid. Maybe if it didn't actually let you press the button or did something different but still sent your email...but to actually make it do that...someone should have realized something bad was going to happen.

That's the most unfunny over-elaborate April fools idea I've heard. The fact that nobody thought it could backfire and the passive aggressive nature of the idea speaks loudly of how out of touch with reality Google engineers are.

Please don’t link directly to sites with unskippable paywalls.

https://archive.is/3TPqE

archive.org doesn't block you based on which dns resolver you use: https://web.archive.org/web/20190914012706/https://www.teleg...

For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19493240

The user says it's bizarre, but it's probably related to cloudflare engaging in censorship on the web.

Cloudflare has made a statement, archive.is has not refuted it or left any comment as far as I know. I'm going to side with cloudflare here.

archive.is specifically blocks requests that come from Cloudflare's datacenters.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21155056

The paywall on that site is skippable by disabling Javascript and refreshing the page

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