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Daring Fireball: Viber
- tzs 16y agoUnder the bad he lists: When you sign up for Viber, they send a push notification to everyone in your address book who has already signed up for Viber. I’m not sure it’s right to call this a privacy issue, per se, because it’s only sending notifications to people whose phone number you have and who have your phone number, but I’m opposed to any service that sends notifications to others on my behalf without my consent. And there is no way to turn this feature off. I'd say it is a privacy issue per se, because it is NOT true that everyone whose number I have in my address book has my number. There are people in my address book who I am careful to only call from my office phone, specifically because I do not want them to have my iPhone number. I also have numbers of people who I have never called from any phone, and who do not have my number. I have them there for certain emergencies.
- binarysoul 16y agoSimple fix here.. allow the end user to choose (maybe default to not sending)