Viewing profile — Dan-Q

Original author here. Upon inspection, these passwords are clearly not chosen by the user and, as far as I can tell, consist only of numbers and uppercase letters.

I'm the original author (but not the poster here on HN). Yeah, I considered that. I even wrote the code in such a way that it supports that. But I'm concerned about the legality of…

Often I'm lazy and just black out revealing information, like I did in my blog post about how British Gas can't understand my name ( https://danq.me/it-is-only-q ). But sometimes I…

Yeah, it was a bad metaphor. I was sleepy. Blurring makes sense as a way to say "this is private". It's almost lampshading, in this case, because it's the bit I want you to look at…

Could be! My only counterpoint is that every time they've previously made a change, they've emailed to say so, and I've searched my email (including spam) and not found any such me…

Sorry, I got mixed-up between this and another thread. You're right, the Google Play one was provided separately (and has now been corrected). My post was about the Business Profil…

To indicate to the reader that the information represented by this area of the image should be considered private. It's like how they blur nipples on TV. We all know what nipples l…

For the business account. I wanted to take control of the Google Business Profile (back then: Google My Business) listing. To do that, Google asked for a phone number they could ca…

Sure. But I still don't think it covers Business Profile. But I'll check.

My phone number is on my CV, and that's deliberate (I want a job!). It's in plenty of other places online too. But none of them (except the Google Play one, which I'm fixing) are a…

Yes, there is. I'm not claiming that my personal phone number shouldn't be online anywhere. There are plenty of places it's pretty easy to find! I'm just saying that I didn't put m…

No, I gave my phone number to Google to gain access to Business Profile, as part of an identity verification process, and specifically didn't give them one to publish on the busine…

Post author here. Nope, I'm in the UK, and therefore covered by the DPA2018 (which is basically the copy-paste version of the GDPR that the UK government made post-Brexit).

Not sure that Google offer Takeout on Business Profiles. Businesses aren't often protected by the kinds of PII-protecting laws (GDPR etc.) that individuals are, and so tech compani…

Post author here. There shouldn't be one on the website (and I can't see one?), but the Google Play developer profile is unfortunate: thanks for pointing it out.

Blog owner here. You're welcome to unblur it: I swapped the number out in the screenshot for one of Ofcom's list of official never-to-be-assigned telephone numbers for drama (e.g. …

No JS on that page either!

Thanks; I hadn't noticed that. It's a side-effect from some terrible CMS plugin I thought I'd disabled. Fixing it now. Edit: Fixed! Thanks again!

Thanks for the shout-out! Even though I know it cheats (and how) I still play against Cheatman sometimes; the challenge is to make guesses that force the computer to bisect its sea…