YouTube Leaves In Embarrassing Debug Comments

Chad Upton discovered some comments left in YouTube’s Flash video player that don’t exactly come off as professional. They include:

we got meta fuck yeah!
showing the goddamn play button
The connection just got tea bagged – reset and reload
Fuck bandwidth detection script its taking too long or not working so fuck 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 scuks

Probably just something Chad Hurley and Steve Chen left in there many months ago, when only three guys were using YouTube (although there are indications in the comments that it may have only been added recently), but it doesn’t look so good when dragged out for display in the town square. Chad explains the real stupidity:
When you publish your Flash Application for production, you should “omit trace actions” in the publish settings. That […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg