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> creates app that leeches your contact list and spam people to o install the app in your name > post about hating advertising you can cut the irony/hypocrisy
by gcb0 12y ago
> creates app that leeches your contact list and spam people to o install the app in your name
> post about hating advertising
you can cut the irony/hypocrisy with a knife. what's next? a post about how he loves client interoperability? heh.
- seqizz 12y ago"Remember, when advertising is involved you the user are the product." == "When advertising is not involved, your information is the product."
- skrebbel 12y ago> spam people to o install the app in your name Any references for this? I've been using Whatsapp for years and never saw them do this. I've spammed people, in person mostly, to install it back when Whatsapp wasn't ubiquitous where I lived yet, but that's it. I assume that's not what you meant.
- gcb0 12y agoit shows (or used to, or maybe it's an entirely different app. i only check them out in a sandbox at time of launch) all your contacts as "offline" and when you messaged them it sent out a sms or something else they would get hold of from the contact list your just gladly provided them and it appeared as a message from you asking them to install it.
- otterley 12y agoUnfortunately every non-closed IM system to date has been inundated with spammers and become practically useless.