The toxic side of free. Or: how I lost the love...

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Clear account of JS Bin’s actual problems: seven years of spam and abuse, 21 million bins filling a 100 GB EBS volume until saves stop, improvised mitigations like fail2ban, a cron that accidentally blocks everyone, paid Pro accounts to cover hosting, stolen‑card testing costing ~£20 per fraud, VAT MOSS headaches, DDoS coordination hosted in bins, two police takedowns including child pornography, and concrete fixes (anonymous output time limits, GitHub‑only logins, drive expansion to 400 GB) and what still breaks.

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