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(b) is almost certain. I have trouble believing no one at Google thought, "I have people in my email contacts I don't want to share with on Buzz." They probabl
by ajdecon 17y ago
(b) is almost certain. I have trouble believing no one at Google thought, "I have people in my email contacts I don't want to share with on Buzz." They probably thought that these cases would be in a tiny minority, and that they could respond to complaints with pointers for how to block people.
- bp001 17y agoAgree that (b) is almost certain. Google had the decision to jump-start their social network in a big way at a cost of annoying maybe 1 in 100 gmail users who are conscious about this sort of thing. Seems like an obvious decision to a for-profit company. It raises questions in my mind about what data I am providing to Google and what unforeseen ways they may decide to use that data at some future point.
- fnid2 17y agoWhat if Google just starts buying stuff for you and having it shipped to your house. You can opt-out once it arrives -- if you can figure out the RMA process...
- thrdOriginal 17y agoYou're probably right but what would make them think this would be a tiny minority? Have these engineers never had ex-girlfriends?
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- danieldon 17y agoSane people don't have excessive drama with their exes.
- thrdOriginal 17y agoSane people don't make accounts to troll anti-google posts. And who said anything about excessive drama: do I really need to list the myriad reasons why one wouldn't want email to automatically "follow" exes and vice versa?
- ErrantX 17y agoClearly this is an edge case though; you cant protect against every eventuality!
- moss 17y agoSane people do not always have sane exes.