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Bluesky is even worse, some of their emails come from "moderation@blueskyweb.xyz". They have to make posts to assure people it's not a scam, especially as they

Bluesky is even worse, some of their emails come from "moderation@blueskyweb.xyz". They have to make posts to assure people it's not a scam, especially as they'll ask you to mail ID etc to that address: https://bsky.app/profile/safety.bsky.app/post/3ljp6zi7tp227 https://bsky.app/profile/safety.bsky.app/post/3ljp6zi7tp227

jquery 5mo ago
At least Bluesky has an excuse of not being a Fortune 50 company. What’s Microsoft’s excuse?
- lostlogin 5mo ago
  ‘We built it 30 years ago, it’s sort of compatible with everything and we will never deprecate.’ It’s not a good excuse…
vasco 5mo ago
Sending your id to a social media IS a scam.
- fragmede 5mo ago
  What definition of the word scam are you using here? What promise of a product that you pay for that isn't being delivered, with uploading your id to a site on the Internet?
  - vasco 5mo ago
    I'm not gonna get hoodwinked into highbrow shenanigans. Social media doesn't need IDs to work, demanding it is a scam.
    - stavros 5mo ago
      Defining a word isn't "highbrow shenanigans", although I guess it depends on how you define that.
      - vasco 5mo ago
        If you think social media needs your ID for any reasonable cause, we're free to disagree on that. My point was clear, bullshit technicalities on the word scam are meaningless when you understand the meaning.
    - 7bit 5mo ago
      Rhetoric won't save you from the embarrassing situation you created for yourself. You accused something of being a scam without understanding the definition of the word. Now that your claim has been challenged, you're trying to redefine terms and argue around the issue rather than admit you were wrong.
      - bshacklett 5mo ago
        From dictionary.cambridge.org: a dishonest plan for making money or getting an advantage, especially one that involves tricking people: I can easily see a social media company demanding an ID falling under this definition if the accuser believes that the actual use of said ID will be different or more expansive than implied. That is not an unreasonable assumption, IMO.
- hvb2 5mo ago
  By email... Just to add insult to injury
donkyrf 5mo ago
Microsoft is the 4th largest company in the world. There should be a long list of companies whose policies are worse than theirs.
- vitally3643 5mo ago
  That doesn't follow. I would expect the list of companies worst than Microsoft to be about 4 items long
chuckadams 5mo ago
Hard to beat Outlook 2007 which had some "smart tags" feature that all referenced "5iantlavalamp.com", and things started breaking when that domain expired.
- varun_ch 5mo ago
  I simultaneously don’t believe this and fully believe this is something they would do. Do you have any sources on this?
  - chuckadams 5mo ago
    It's amazing how little information has survived: the only reference I can find right away is https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22812691/What-is-5iantlavalamp-com-smart-tag-reference.html https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22812691/What-is-... I was working in anti-spam at the time, so I was eyeballing a lot of raw email dumps and writing analysis scripts for "anomalous" urls, so it popped up fairly frequently.
    - qingcharles 5mo ago
      The primary problem is we can't search through time via WayBack Machine where a lot of these things have gone. Took me a while the other day to surface the Choco-Banana Shake Hang which Microsoft deleted from their production site. https://web.archive.org/web/20000608173453/http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q157/6/68.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20000608173453/http://support.mi...
      - wizzwizz4 5mo ago
        There are a few archives of Microsoft KB articles. I found this article in Beta Archive wiki's, which has a full-text search. https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Microsoft_KB_Archive/157668 https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Microsoft_K...
        5mo ago

jquery 5mo ago

At least Bluesky has an excuse of not being a Fortune 50 company. What’s Microsoft’s excuse?

lostlogin 5mo ago
‘We built it 30 years ago, it’s sort of compatible with everything and we will never deprecate.’ It’s not a good excuse…

vasco 5mo ago

Sending your id to a social media IS a scam.

fragmede 5mo ago
What definition of the word scam are you using here? What promise of a product that you pay for that isn't being delivered, with uploading your id to a site on the Internet?
- vasco 5mo ago
  I'm not gonna get hoodwinked into highbrow shenanigans. Social media doesn't need IDs to work, demanding it is a scam.
  - stavros 5mo ago
    Defining a word isn't "highbrow shenanigans", although I guess it depends on how you define that.
    - vasco 5mo ago
      If you think social media needs your ID for any reasonable cause, we're free to disagree on that. My point was clear, bullshit technicalities on the word scam are meaningless when you understand the meaning.
  - 7bit 5mo ago
    Rhetoric won't save you from the embarrassing situation you created for yourself. You accused something of being a scam without understanding the definition of the word. Now that your claim has been challenged, you're trying to redefine terms and argue around the issue rather than admit you were wrong.
    - bshacklett 5mo ago
      From dictionary.cambridge.org: a dishonest plan for making money or getting an advantage, especially one that involves tricking people: I can easily see a social media company demanding an ID falling under this definition if the accuser believes that the actual use of said ID will be different or more expansive than implied. That is not an unreasonable assumption, IMO.
hvb2 5mo ago
By email... Just to add insult to injury

donkyrf 5mo ago

Microsoft is the 4th largest company in the world. There should be a long list of companies whose policies are worse than theirs.

vitally3643 5mo ago
That doesn't follow. I would expect the list of companies worst than Microsoft to be about 4 items long

chuckadams 5mo ago

Hard to beat Outlook 2007 which had some "smart tags" feature that all referenced "5iantlavalamp.com", and things started breaking when that domain expired.

varun_ch 5mo ago
I simultaneously don’t believe this and fully believe this is something they would do. Do you have any sources on this?
- chuckadams 5mo ago
  It's amazing how little information has survived: the only reference I can find right away is https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22812691/What-is-5iantlavalamp-com-smart-tag-reference.html https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22812691/What-is-... I was working in anti-spam at the time, so I was eyeballing a lot of raw email dumps and writing analysis scripts for "anomalous" urls, so it popped up fairly frequently.
  - qingcharles 5mo ago
    The primary problem is we can't search through time via WayBack Machine where a lot of these things have gone. Took me a while the other day to surface the Choco-Banana Shake Hang which Microsoft deleted from their production site. https://web.archive.org/web/20000608173453/http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q157/6/68.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20000608173453/http://support.mi...
    - wizzwizz4 5mo ago
      There are a few archives of Microsoft KB articles. I found this article in Beta Archive wiki's, which has a full-text search. https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Microsoft_KB_Archive/157668 https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Microsoft_K...
      - 5mo ago