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Personally, I think no JavaScript means no third party tracking. Also requiring a .edu email is a good start.
by mcny 6y ago
Personally, I think no JavaScript means no third party tracking. Also requiring a .edu email is a good start.
- SahAssar 6y agoWhy would you want to require a .edu? Seems like it closes it off to a lot of people (especially globally, but also within the US).
- foepys 6y agoSounds a bit like elitism. It asumes that people with .edu addresses are somehow better as first users. GP maybe has Facebook in mind that did exactly this.
- SahAssar 6y agoThat was when facebook was meant as an internal platform for colleges though, I don't understand why a platform for hosting bios/resumes publicly would want/need that restriction.
- flavor8 6y ago> Also requiring a .edu email is a good start. Not really, unless the intent is to discriminate against immigrants to the US / people outside the US / people who went straight into a career from high school.
- LadyCailin 6y agoI did go to college, but that was a decade ago, and I no longer have an edu address.
- mbreese 6y agoIt looks like the service is targeted at students (US based) and academic researchers. If this is the case, the the email filter makes sense... especially for a launch. It’s not perfect, but a good start. Why assume nefarious motivations?
- mikro2nd 6y agoNot necessarily nefarious, just myopic.
- fulafel 6y ago3rd party tracking works fine without JS.
- harlanji 6y agoEarly in my career I made an access log analyzer, 2005ish. I never browsed the web normally after that. That’d be a good primer exercise for people learning to code, with lessons beyond coding in itself.