[mnutt]

I don't work there, but where I work we deploy 10-20 times a day and if somebody asked me to change the way we store data in cookies, it would probably take a bit of time to roll out.

I'm only defending them because it annoys me when people who aren't familiar with the software internals tell me "this is a minor change, it should take you less than an hour".

[0x12]

To be fair though, not doing something is a lot easier to implement than to add new functionality. As a minimal implementation they could err on the safe side and stop tracking everybody for a bit until they've corrected their error.