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by thaumasiotes 358 days ago
> Their success rate on HackerOne seems widely varying.

Some of that is likely down to company policies; Snapchat's policy, for example, is that nothing is ever marked invalid.

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Yes, I'm sure anyone with more HackerOne experience can give specifics on the companies' policies. For now, those are the most objective measures of quality we have on the reports.
This is discussed in the post – many came down to individual programs' policies e.g. not accepting the vulnerability if it was in a 3rd party product they used (but still hosted by them), duplicates (another researcher reported the same vuln at the same time; not really any way to avoid this), or not accepting some classes of vuln like cache poisoning.