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A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Fullest@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Not necessarily to justify Gizmodo in this instance, but Slack does paywall their SSO feature behind their Business+ Plan, which seems to currently run $12.50/mo/user, which is about a 70% increase from their next pricing tier. See: https://slack.com/pricing

Given the price difference I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't want to pay for that.

Edit: someone later in the thread linked this page which helps explain why this is generally a bad practice https://sso.tax/

[–] ytorf@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Wild ride scrolling through the percentage markups and thinking you found the peak at Cloudflare only to see Coursera looming over it