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The title is wrong. Buzz itself is not opt-in, auto-follow is, but not yet, and not retroactively. The blog post also glosses over something critical: This c
by jfager 17y ago
The title is wrong. Buzz itself is not opt-in, auto-follow is, but not yet, and not retroactively.
The blog post also glosses over something critical:
This created a great deal of concern and led people to think that Buzz had automatically displayed the people they were following to the world before they created a profile.
But what about people who already had a Google profile, who did have their contacts automatically displayed to the world? Google still hasn't acknowledged this or apologized for it, and they continue to act like everyone who is complaining is getting upset over perceived rather than actual privacy concerns.
- carbon8 17y ago"But what about people who already had a Google profile, who did have their contacts automatically displayed to the world?" One of my accounts had a google profile, and nothing was displayed automatically; it still required the exact same steps as the accounts without a google profile, including the "How do you want to appear to others?" form with the checkbox to display followers/following lists.
- jfager 17y agoI've personally seen it happen with 3 separate accounts, including my own. I don't know what we did different than you - we logged in to gmail, clicked 'no thanks' on the Buzz pop-up, noticed it was turned on anyways, checked our already existing public profiles, and saw a publicly available following and followers list.