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> This can easily be abused for stalkerish behavior Well, sure. Any away/active status can be used for bad things. Pretty much any form of text communication c
by afavour 5y ago
> This can easily be abused for stalkerish behavior
Well, sure. Any away/active status can be used for bad things. Pretty much any form of text communication can, too. We all opt in and out of things according to our level of comfort, like with the permission prompt this API provides.
- _jal 5y agoWhy not add an API to allow servers to request your contact information and creditworthiness? You can just opt out if you're not comfortable with it.
- themacguffinman 5y agoSeems fine to me if it's opt-in just like the idle-detection API.
- afavour 5y agoWhy not debate the API that’s in front of us rather than make up excessive imaginary ones? (besides, payment APIs are already able to request your contact information in order to bill you and ship things to you. And guess what: pretty useful!)
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- shadowgovt 5y agoThat API already exists, and you can't opt out of it. Every one of the credit reporting agencies provides some variant of it to banks, right now. Somehow, we all sleep at night anyway.
- Talanes 5y agoThe first one is just Autofill. I already have that, why should I be scared of it?
- handoflixue 5y agoThat already exists. It's called auto-complete, and for plenty of users it knows everything necessary to make purchases.
- chris37879 5y agoUntil you're required to accept the permission to keep your job. Tracking users to this level, even if you're paying them for work, is bad and will be abused. Is it handy? Sure. But maybe we all need to consider if we actually need to know the status of other people so much.