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From creator[1]: “I reverse engineered mcdonald's internal api and I'm currently placing an order worth $18,752 every minute at every mcdonald's in the US to figure out which locations have a broken ice cream machine” [1] https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319346264992026624
From creator[1]: “I reverse engineered mcdonald's internal api and I'm currently placing an order worth $18,752 every minute at every mcdonald's in the US to figure out which locations have a broken ice cream machine” [1] https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319346264992026624
I don't have much sympathy for a huge corporation like McDonalds, but isn't this is kind of an asshole move by the developer?
I don't have much sympathy for a huge corporation like McDonalds, but isn't this is kind of an asshole move by the developer?
Isn't this very illegal?
Not a Lawywer: What law is he breaking (relative to both the US and Germany)? In US criminal law, there is the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which has very specific narrow provisions, including the test of "has to intentionally cause damages to a computer system part of interstate or foreign commerce." Which does not apply here. McD's would have to pursue, instead, a civil case, based around a EULA or ToS, tantamount…
This site is so clean. If the creator sees this, or if anyone else has the knowledge or pointers, I would like to know how to create a basic one page site with a map interface just like this one. I have zero programming experience for reference.
Not the author, but McBroken looks to be built with Mapbox's Javascript library, so you'll need to break out a text editor. They have some good starter docs here:
https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/simple-map/
You can learn a lot by signing up for an API key from Mapbox and tweaking their example code. They even provide online editors so you don't even need to work with an HTML file locally (though I'd still recommend that for permanence). No React, no Webpack needed!
Not sure where this data is coming from but for months now I've been ordering ice cream through the McDonalds app only to find out when I get there that the machine is broken and that they can't cancel or refund the order, which ultimately results in a stressful cash refund. It's happened multiple times at various locations around Manhattan. Eventually I'll just use this method to get 30-day cash loans on my credit c…
There are few employees who are trained to maintain and clean those thing at McDonald's. If they get gross they usually just turn them off which cuts the cooling and then it gets very very nasty.
Getting a bellyache is the bear to hope for.
Disclaimer. I didn't work for McDonald's and it was two decades ago.
It still puke a little if I even see people eating it
3 hours I'm a closed kiosk at 31C cleaning out machines is a nightmare. The smell is horrible. But they didn't allow opening the flaps and letting air conditioning since it would be optically and stinkwise off putting for customers
From creator[1]: “I reverse engineered mcdonald's internal api and I'm currently placing an order worth $18,752 every minute at every mcdonald's in the US to figure out which locations have a broken ice cream machine” [1] https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319346264992026624
I'm curious why the order has to be worth that much? Couldn't just be an order for one ice cream product?