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Google did something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz#Privacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz#Privacy
by areyousure 6y ago
Google did something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz#Privacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz#Privacy
- seebs 6y agoGoogle did something significantly worse -- and spent ages apologizing for it and never really recovered from the reputation hit, and I suspect that negative impressions Buzz gave people were a contributing factor to G+'s total failure.
- eitland 6y ago> and I suspect that negative impressions Buzz gave people were a contributing factor to G+'s total failure. Absolutely. Google+ became really nice towards the end, but HN kept hating it, and I guess partly because of Buzz.
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- throwphoton 6y agoWow... > Google Buzz publicly disclosed (on the user's Google profile) a list of the names of Gmail contacts that the user has most frequently emailed or chatted with. Google Buzz is something you definitely don't want to be similar to.
- yaacov 6y agoThe disaster that was Google Buzz has left a thick bureaucratic scar tissue designed to prevent something like that from happening again. Here’s an old article about it: https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/26/technology/google_privacy/index.htm https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/26/technology/google_privacy/i... I suspect TripleByte is about to learn some similar lessons.