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It wouldn't have mattered. The user republished a Facebook email on a non-Facebook venue (such as a public mailing list archive), thus exposing their email addr
by blakeross 16y ago
It wouldn't have mattered. The user republished a Facebook email on a non-Facebook venue (such as a public mailing list archive), thus exposing their email address. See, for instance, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/salemwhitemagic/message/89 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/salemwhitemagic/message/89
- what 16y agoThat's a lame excuse and as corywatilo has pointed out is untrue (at least for his email... and probably others).
- natrius 16y agoThere is no way for Google to find those pages unless those pages are linked from somewhere else or Google is getting URLs from users' browsing activity. The first scenario makes this relatively harmless. The second makes it a privacy issue on Google's end.
- what 16y agoEven so, why put private details on a publicly accessible page?
- natrius 16y agoThat page has to be publicly accessible. It is sent to users without Facebook accounts. It doesn't need to be indexed, but it's not the huge bug people are making it out to be. It's a tiny bug.
- what 16y agoI understand that the page has to be public, but why include the email address there? The person who received the link knows what email address it applies to. Every opt out/unsubscribe page I've used didn't display my email.
- natrius 16y ago> The person who received the link knows what email address it applies to. No they don't. Plenty of people have multiple email addresses forward to one account. Showing the email address helps, and it's harmless unless people post the link somewhere else on the internet.