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I'm kind of sick of this "let's revolt against everybody using my data" mentality. They don't persist your contact data to their server. What exactly is it th
by natural219 15y ago
I'm kind of sick of this "let's revolt against everybody using my data" mentality. They don't persist your contact data to their server. What exactly is it that you're afraid of?
Moreover, how on earth did you think the "Add Friends" feature worked? I'm assuming at least some of you program software, and you should know that data doesn't just appear out of nowhere. Do you really expect a software startup to move every piece of data sorting & analyzing to the client side that has potential to piss off its userbase?
I understand that it's easy to just encrypt the information, or some other X remedy. I'm just saying there's a line between a software mistake and the let's-grab-the-pitchforks rhetoric that inevitably stems from stories like this.
- evan_ 15y agoI agree in general, but they do actually store your data on the servers.
- natural219 15y agoOh. Nevermind, then.
- chc 15y agoIf they aren't persisting your contact data to their server, how can they now say they deleted it all from their server? I was under the impression that storing your contact data was exactly what bothered people. Am I mistaken?
- icebraining 15y agoMoreover, how on earth did you think the "Add Friends" feature worked? Unless all their userbase is composed of programmers or at least IT people, it's completely unreasonable to expect them to know that. I think they should, for their own sake, but as a app developer you can't assume they do.
- judev 15y agoThe issues are that they sent address books in plain text without opt in. Two fundamental, I'd-sack-him-if-I-employed-him mistakes.