Comment by joshstrange a day ago
That’s quite different from what we’re talking about though. That’s adding games or fun into your product whereas in this specific sub-thread we’re talking about naming code concepts (functions, classes, variables, enums, etc) funny things.
Not to mention even just this article exposed a just-for-fun API that ended up having a negative effect and had to be removed:
`isUserAGoat` ended up allowing any caller to determine if a specific app is installed on the system, which is a privacy violation and allows fingerprinting against the user's consent.
I get the desire to make the job more fun than just implementing a spec, but many of the things we work on are very important and very complex, with oodles of real-world consequences. That unfortunately means everything we do has to be well-considered and not off-the-cuff.
Well it was not an issue back then since any app was able to query certain arbitrary specific apps (and yes some apps used to query a big list).
They disabled the "fun" function in android 11 with the arrive of the QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission.
When you’re building an API, it is your product.