14 DAY TRIAL // If you thought that Google is a reputable company that shows only 100% professional activities, you should really read this article. Chad Upton, an Adobe Flash instructor and developer, discovered some unusual content in the recently-released YouTube flash video player that reveals some unexpected debug statements.
The developer discovered them with a special version of the Flash Player (9.0.45 Debugger), a release created only for debug matters. Although the majority of the lines were typical, some of them are, as you can see in the picture attached to the article, at least interesting: "We got meta f**k yeah," a comment says, "showing the goddamn play button," it is also mentioned.
According to Chad Upton, there were even more messages that revealed an unexpected language used by the Mountain View company:
- The connection just got tea bagged - reset and reload - F**k bandwidth detection script its taking too long or not working so f**k it hard - Flash is affecting badly the performance of the ****.com website - This feature does not work and crashes the player fix laterz HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK this su**s
Now, the questions: is it Google the one that inserted all these comments in the flash player or they belong to the old YouTube owners? Chad Upton is helping us with some answers. It seems that, a long time ago, some of the messages were discovered by another developer but, since then, other comments were added to the flash player. Because Google acquired YouTube in October 2006, apparently, the search giant's developers left the messages to be accessed from the public.
As Chad mentioned, you can view all these messages - as long as Google doesn't delete them - by installing the FlashTracer plug-in for Firefox bundled with Debug Flash Player. Then, go to YouTube and click on any video published on the page.