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Coinbase CEO here. Just updated with a blog post: http://blog.coinbase.com/post/47198421272/data-on-public-merchant-pages http://blog.coinbase.com/post/4719842

Coinbase CEO here. Just updated with a blog post: http://blog.coinbase.com/post/47198421272/data-on-public-merchant-pages http://blog.coinbase.com/post/47198421272/data-on-public-mer... These are merchant checkout pages. Your information is not going to be shown on one of these pages unless you created a "buy now" button, donate button, or checkout page and posted a public link to it somewhere as a merchant. Order pages are designed to be public so customers can reach them, but we messed up by making them publicly indexable and including merchant contact info there without being more explicit. The email in particular should not have been included. More details in the blog post. Very sorry for the trouble on this!

ntumlin 14y ago
It scares me that you're just going for "difficult to scrape" and "not make them easily indexible by Google." We don't want it to be hard to get our personal information, we want it to be impossible.
- baddox 14y ago
  Did you read the entire comment? Those are merchant listings, which means that the vast majority of them are probably intended to be public. You absolutely would not want that information to be impossible to obtain.
  - w1ntermute 14y ago
    But why would you want them to be "difficult to scrape" then? It should either be "not available" or "easily available". If I'm a merchant, wouldn't I want my info to be as easily available as possible?