Sometimes you get $0, sometimes you get more. I would like to mention this stuff on my college applications, and even if I tried to gatekeep it, it'd eventually be patched. Not sure what your argument is here.

Incredibly impressive to do this sort of work before applying to college!

The author claims to be 8 years old in 2015. So that makes them still a teenager. It is pretty cool IMO.

Are you guys honestly arguing like the zero day industry would, for a vector that couldn’t be used by any ad blocking extension since Google has them under an electron microscope 24/7? To pick on a very young, enthusiastic programmer? What the hell??

Google would have found this bug if any extensions tried to rely on it and patched it instantly anyway.