> Protect your privacy > Just link your name, home address, and phone number for this random company Yeah, no thanks. Edited to clarify for those who may be unfamiliar with the concept of PII.
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#22> Protect your privacy > Just link your name, home address, and phone number for this random company Yeah, no thanks. Edited to clarify for those who may be unfamiliar with the concept of PII.
Well, the spammers sending you junk mail already have all this? Not much to lose here :)
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#23We should all have a personal postal code that would link to our current address. When we change our address we would link the postal code to the new directory. By having this the companies would not know where we live and we would have a place to select the mail we want.
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#24I really like the concept of "text this number to perform action". There was a post a few months back about a postcard creation service where you just text a photo.
How do you "text a photo"? Does this imply iMessage or MMS? I'm based in Europe and nobody uses SMS or iMessage here, so genuine question.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you "text a photo"? Does this imply iMessage or MMS? I'm based in Europe and nobody uses SMS or iMessage here, so genuine question.
In the Messages app, next to the text field, there is a camera icon.
As I said, nobody in central Europe uses that afaik.
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#26> Protect your privacy > Just link your name, home address, and phone number for this random company Yeah, no thanks. Edited to clarify for those who may be unfamiliar with the concept of PII.
Well, the spammers sending you junk mail already have all this? Not much to lose here :)
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#27> Protect your privacy > Just link your name, home address, and phone number for this random company Yeah, no thanks. Edited to clarify for those who may be unfamiliar with the concept of PII.
Totally understand the privacy concern. If it helps, I'm a person, not a company—and I put my photo and personal links right on the homepage so folks can decide if they would like to trust me with this sensitive information.
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#28Unrelated to the project, I'm excited for AI-generated art to get better or decline in popularity. The art on the homepage and its Stripe checkout pages give me the heebie-jeebies for some reason.
That reason has two names: Dribbble and Behance. That's where all this 'AI' website art and assets come from.
Re: Show HN: Mel – The missing unsubscribe button for physical mail
#29> Protect your privacy > Just link your name, home address, and phone number for this random company Yeah, no thanks. Edited to clarify for those who may be unfamiliar with the concept of PII.
Do you really consider your address private information?
If this organization registers as a nonprofit, that's one thing. Outside of that, I wouldn't trust such services any further than I could throw a pitch deck claiming to make the world a better place, with your PII.
[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/17/21027159/unroll-me-email...
Re: Show HN: Mel – The missing unsubscribe button for physical mail
#30Unrelated to the project, I'm excited for AI-generated art to get better or decline in popularity. The art on the homepage and its Stripe checkout pages give me the heebie-jeebies for some reason.
> for some reason That reason has two names: Dribbble and Behance. That's where all this 'AI' website art and assets come from.