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No, I am not going to opt out. 1. A system in which I personally have to contact every scammer that had the same idea is not a system I wish to accept and play
by Deestan 13y ago
No, I am not going to opt out.
1. A system in which I personally have to contact every scammer that had the same idea is not a system I wish to accept and play along with.
2. By going to their site and authenticating, I have proven to them that I am a) an active user and b) there is a chance they may hold some power over me by collecting my data. While they may make a "promise" not to store my data, they can toss the list of opt-out users over the wall to another "entirely different" company which also collects my data and now sees fit to prioritize me. I don't know about this other company, so I can't opt out. See 1.
3. As nochuck13 said: Their Facebook opt-out auth demands access to your friends list.
- _pmf_ 13y agoSeeing this as anything but an elaborate scam is quite hard.
- verticalpalette 13y agoI've already replied to nochuck13's comment, but I'll add it here as well. For #3, access to your public profile AND friend list really is the minimum level of access you can ask from the Facebook API. See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/login/public-profile-and-friend-list/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/login/public-....
- dasil003 13y ago> A system in which I personally have to contact every scammer that had the same idea is not a system I wish to accept and play along with. I get where you're coming from, but I don't think this is a real danger. Klout had to work hard to gain traction, I don't think any copycats are going to find anywhere near enough success to even show up on your radar. I think most people, even outside the tech bubble, are well aware of Facebook whoring as a phenomenon and Klout's business model is headed towards in inevitable jumping the shark and backlash against social media fetishization. We are quickly approaching the point where Facebook and Twitter are simply utilities and there is a limited appetite to go all meta on this stuff when it isn't novel anymore. That said, I agree nothing really good can come from opting out that can't be gained from simply ignoring Klout entirely. If the scenario in the OA ever happened where my performance evaluation at work evaluated by Klout score I would take that as a golden opportunity to heavily berate said evaluation system. Of course I'm an engineer not a social media wank, so perhaps a douchey performance review for a douchey job is in order?
- nwh 13y agoThe odd bit is, you can still see users that have gone through the opt out process. Their handle is just replaced by a tilda and some sort of internal ID.