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It seemed clear as day to me which would do what from just looking at the registration form. It is however reprehensible to ask a user to divulge their email pa
by flatline 17y ago
It seemed clear as day to me which would do what from just looking at the registration form. It is however reprehensible to ask a user to divulge their email password for any reason, and this is not the only site to do so by a long shot. The only difference that I can see between this and (facebook? twitter?) is that they actively spam your contact list and send you a rude (but personalized!) service email when you complain. Stupid user, for giving up her email password.
- slig 17y agoAgreed. Besides, this isn't news: stupid user giving away their password and "social networks" that do the spam-all-your-contact-list-shit.
- pavel_lishin 17y agoNews like this spreads the lesson that you should never tell anyone your password, so I'm all for this being on top of every news aggregator out there.
- raphar 17y agoFacebook & LinkedIn also ask for your email password, and they use it to spam. Whats interesting is that techcrunch never complains about it. Perhaps it is not wise to write harsh support letters to them ;-). stupid user though.
- varikin 17y agoFacebook and LinkedIn display a list of contacts from your email and allow you to select which ones to send invites (spam) to. And it is usually an optional step that can be skipped. In my eyes, this is OK because it the page is clear about what they want and that it will email your contacts that you select. Of course this is what I recall from when I signed up a while ago, so I could be wrong.
- kam 17y agoHowever, Facebook is reportedly storing contacts imported but not selected, and using them for friend suggestions - see http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/06/12/facebook-now-suggesting-friends-found-in-imported-contact-lists/ http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/06/12/facebook-now-sugges... Personally, I'd never give an email password to a third party, no matter what they claim they'll do with it.
- janj 17y agoFrom the comments it doesn't sound like it was that obvious a week ago.
- pavel_lishin 17y agoThere is an upside to scumbags like this. The publicity will, hopefully, teach people to NEVER give their existing account information to another site.