I'm not a fan of the VLC icon change but I use something else because of it. It's their choice to include it an my choice not to use it.
Disabling it is easy enough but I have other things to do.
Disabling it is easy enough but I have other things to do.
(Note that I don't necessarily agree with this but it's an obvious path.)
This is coming from my 20+ years of experience with computers and applications. I've seen that programs with easter eggs may have some stupid bugs, but won't have something sinister inside them. OTOH, applications with some very serious and no-nonsense attitude has the most advanced "phone home" mechanisms.
This is my experience though. I'd happily stand corrected if I'm wrong.
I don't think anyone can call your own experience "wrong" per se. I'd point to the Google logograms as a "smart and fun [easter egg]" per your definition but they are definitely one of the more sinister corporations.
That's a fair angle :)
https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/easter-eggs-come-from-foxes...