It’s Microsoft, one of the most successful companies in human history. A poorly formed moralistic argument about “entitlement” is absurd. They certainly feel entitled to every aspect of my life, as do most other Fortune 500 companies, I think I can safely desire not needing to log in during a damn search.
So again, because Microsoft has more money than you do, it entitles you to their services for free?
Where else in life does this logic apply?
Perhaps you waded into a conversation without even understanding the core complaint. You can search on Github without a user account, entirely for free. However, they do not provide context-based code search to non-users, despite it still being free.
If for whatever reasons you cannot possibly be bothered to create a free user account out of some irrational fear Github will sell your codebase search history to advertisers (laugh out loud, literally), then you don't get to use that feature. Clone the repo and search it yourself, or find a different deep-pocketed service that lets you mooch everything for free.
tldr; Why are freeloaders always the loudest complainers?
> The general idea of imposing more user-friendliness on very large corporations is not a bad one.
This is not a "user-friendliness" issue by it's very definition. The OP is not even a user!
> "more money than you" is a pretty crazy strawman of the actual comparison they made.
Perhaps you didn't read the conversation. The parent literally made the argument that Microsoft (ignoring that Github is a separate company) has plenty of money and therefore should provide this service for free even to non-users.
The service is free. A user account is free. It doesn't get more simple than this.
The naivety to believe the lack of a Github account somehow safeguards your browsing data is as hilarious as it is sad. Further, believing the creation of an account and searching code repositories somehow results in more ads is beyond hilarious.
This entire thread is pure insanity. Life doesn't need to be this difficult people. Create a throwaway account if you are so worried... or find some other service. You are not owed anything by Github - yet despite that they have made it trivially easy to benefit from their services at no cost to you.
> This is not a "user-friendliness" issue by it's very definition. The OP is not even a user!
They don't need an account to be a user, as you seem to acknowledge later in your comment: "The naivety to believe the lack of a Github account somehow safeguards your browsing data"
> Perhaps you didn't read the conversation. The parent literally made the argument that Microsoft (ignoring that Github is a separate company) has plenty of money and therefore should provide this service for free even to non-users.
They said "one of the most successful companies in human history".
That has nothing to do with the parent's amount of money. It's not a human-comparable amount of money.
If the company had ten million dollars the parent wouldn't be making the same argument about size.
> This entire thread is pure insanity. Life doesn't need to be this difficult people. Create a throwaway account if you are so worried... or find some other service. You are not owed anything by Github - yet despite that they have made it trivially easy to benefit from their services at no cost to you.
I have an account. That doesn't change how companies should work. And I find no "difficulty" in having a little discussion.
> You are not owed anything
Yeah I am. They make mass market money and they use public infrastructure. If the population wants to impose rules on them, the population gets to. Like forcing them to pay taxes. That's money they owe me indirectly.
I don't get to make the decisions on my own, but I can say if I think a theoretical rule would be good.
