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To me, the problem is not that they are taking my gmail password, but that they show me this tricky "spam your friends" screen before I am even ready to know wt
by ashu 19y ago
To me, the problem is not that they are taking my gmail password, but that they show me this tricky "spam your friends" screen before I am even ready to know wtf this new service is!
Regarding the sites getting my Gmail/Yahoo passwords, I don't think any site is really happy doing that. (We at Buxfer also do it, but it's tucked inside the site for users who really want to do it.) If Gmail and Yahoo were to open up even more and provide secure access to the addressbooks, nobody would have to do this stupid scraping anymore.
- Tichy 19y agoThoughts about this: a) I don't want people to give away my email address anyway b) perhaps it would be possible to create a kind of bookmarklet or browser plugin that would make it easy for people to submit addresses from their address book? For example a "buxfer-invitation-bookmarklet", which people could use to send buxfer invitations to people from their address book?