Aerlinthian posted:
But seriously this company was a very dirty little outfit. I'll explain what they did. In the original versions of the program it was a pretty slick interface (at the time) for setting up internet friendships but what this outfit did forever stuck in my memory. You could naturally make your own settings private but after the program reached about quarter million users, this company made it so that your friends contact list was exposed to them (the company).
So the trick was that you used the service and a friend entered all of your contact data (phone, address, email, etc), that contact data was exposed to the company for their purposes.
This was all long before Facebook, so way back then I made up my mind I would never again go anywhere near any of these programs and I don't even bother giving my email to most people because I know that most people are too ignorant to BBC their mail when they start up their stupid chain email fetishes.
There is not much that I hate more than being marketed to or having my personal info sold like I have no say in the matter or that it is not a valuable commodity to me. All of these companies suck donkey balls and many of them over the years lied many times about their privacy policies.
Z-Elder posted:
I always thought that it was a Mossad trick! How easy it made it for them to watch millions.
I always thought that it was a Mossad trick! How easy it made it for them to watch millions.
But seriously this company was a very dirty little outfit. I'll explain what they did. In the original versions of the program it was a pretty slick interface (at the time) for setting up internet friendships but what this outfit did forever stuck in my memory. You could naturally make your own settings private but after the program reached about quarter million users, this company made it so that your friends contact list was exposed to them (the company).
So the trick was that you used the service and a friend entered all of your contact data (phone, address, email, etc), that contact data was exposed to the company for their purposes.
This was all long before Facebook, so way back then I made up my mind I would never again go anywhere near any of these programs and I don't even bother giving my email to most people because I know that most people are too ignorant to BBC their mail when they start up their stupid chain email fetishes.
There is not much that I hate more than being marketed to or having my personal info sold like I have no say in the matter or that it is not a valuable commodity to me. All of these companies suck donkey balls and many of them over the years lied many times about their privacy policies.
LinkedIn does this - even if you set yourself up as private and keep your connections private - if a member pays extra for the upgraded service then they will have access to any data you put up on there and your connections.
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