In your opinion, there are more lines of malicious or benevolent code on the internet in general? What percentage do you think would be?

define "malicious" and "benevolent".

everything is benevolent to _someone_. even code designed to destroy everything is benevolent to the person who wanted to destroy everything.

so the answer to your question is highly dependent on subjective factors.

but given a distinction category "is it meant to help the general population", then i'd say 80% is malicious. and 100% of all commercial software, since it's designed to make money, not to make life better.

@chatgpt what percentage of the web is PHP?

@donkulator
As of 2021, around 79% of websites on the internet use PHP as their server-side programming language. This makes PHP one of the most widely used languages for web development.

@tosensei looks like you're bang on with 80%.

@donkulator i wouldn't consider php inherently malicious.

i'd rather categorize it as "chaotic neutral" on the DND scale.

Nobody knows the true proportions of anything on the internet.

more malicious

every teenager's 101 code is gonna be hacking some retarded corporation limitations before they realize laws exist

and ofc people don't talk about this for obvious reasons

not to mention. for example. all the code for anti ad blocks, all the code to check if an app that's uploaded to the app store is really just a YouTube app that doesn't serve ads. corps write code to be malicious to their users because they want to extract more profits

gamification mechanisms for in app purchases and fake tokens because they divorce you from the idea you're spending real money, dopamine skinner boxes on twitter and Instagram. all that is made to go against free wills and by definition is malicious, for it is manipulative

we don't even hide it. we simply normalized it

and then people make "malicious" "hacking" code to get around the malicious psychologically hacking code like making adblockers. malice upon malice. we just can't get along, can we?!