> Microsoft software since the 2014, for the most part, is also paraphrased from other people's code they find laying around online.

That was pretty funny and explains a lot.

I wish I could do more :(

Instead I always break things when I paraphrase code without the GeniusParaphrasingTool

This is exactly why I moved to self hosted code in 2017.

While I couldn’t have predicted the future, even classic data mining posed a risk.

It is just reality that if you give a third party access to your data, you should expect them to use it.

It is just too tempting of a value stream and legislation just isn’t there to avoid the EULA trap.

I was targeting a market where fractions of a percentage advantage were important which did drive my what at the time was labeled paranoia

	▲	moritzwarhier an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I mean they were very actively pushing it with GitHub. There even was this "Arctic Code Vault" badge that kind of encourages you to put your side projects on GitHub. I did it too, wouldn't do so today, but I also don't regret it. Because the value in it is probably not that immense. It was my first project in both React and TypeScript, just to learn both technologies. And I had a couple of weeks where I was injured in a hospital, so plenty of time on hand. It is a client-side sudoku generator and game, buggy as hell, idiosyncratic code, and loads of people have done this better than me. But I like it :) https://strlns.github.io/ksuduo/index.html