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Why would you need women for that? Anyone could have told you that this was a bad thing.
by jhgb 6y ago
Why would you need women for that? Anyone could have told you that this was a bad thing.
- viraptor 6y agoBecause relatively it impacts non-men more. Anyone interested in privacy would point it out, but not everyone has incentives to think about privacy in every situation.
- Spivak 6y ago_
- sebular 6y agoHow do you respond to the fact that development of the feature was led and announced by a woman?
- StavrosK 6y agoBut she's no true woman! Admittedly, this reply is tongue-in-cheek because I'm amused at how positively bizarre this subthread is.
- Spivak 6y agoI mean I have to eat my hat for sure. I should have not have just trusted the parent comment and just looked at how it worked. I wrongly assumed it was some account setting like “enable tips” and then it walks you through a PayPal setup and then suddenly millions of people are going to be unwittingly exposing their address to strangers potentially without knowing and with no alternative except to not accept payments. It’s literally just a way to add tip links to your profile which is way more benign.
- StavrosK 6y agoTo be fair, I thought it worked the way you described it too, and was aghast at how anyone could have thought this was a good idea, man or woman.
- dang 6y agoPlease don't do this here.
- StavrosK 6y agoSorry, I explained myself more under the sibling's reply. The way I understood it seemed such a gross vulnerability that it should have sounded terrible to either gender, but apparently the actual feature is much more tame.
- s5300 6y agoWomen are much more likely to be aware of the pretty serious risk of somebody being able to easily attain your address. I think it's a fair statement
- pfundstein 6y agoBased on what? Do you have any research or studies that support that statement?
- s5300 6y ago4x more likely to be stalked, along with many other issues that go along with that. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/183781.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjuoovEkrfwAhUEbs0KHRkFDoQQFjAUegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw29VIx3FMCICyXljCrf2MA0 https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/n... If you'd like tho, you could happy refute that doesn't correlate with my initial statement if you so feel the need. This was from a singular Google search in about 5 seconds, I'm sure there's much more statistics out there if you feel unsure.
- kar5pt 6y agoMen don't want strangers to know their address either.