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Clubhouse requires contact list in order to get invites, which are required to sign up right now. I get why they are doing this, and it caused me to share my contacts with them. However, I resented it and it put me immediately in a defensive posture with the product and company. There is no possible way to trust a company with your contact list and Apple should make it how Photos works now--where you can select which…
I don't see what the point is. "Data poisoning" gives companies a bunch of fake contacts... on top of all your real ones? Who cares? So they send some e-mails to addresses that don't exist or something? So it takes up an extra 1% of disk space in their database? If you could share an empty address book then that would actually preserve the privacy of your contacts. But this doesn't do that. I don't get it.
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How are they breaking the rules? It seems like they are using it for the same purpose they prompt permissions for.
They create ghost profiles for those contacts, just in case that user ever signs up. That’s fucking garbage and they should be ashamed of doing that, let alone immediately removed from the App Store.
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You don't bounce emails you prebounce them and clean up your list. This is part of any sensible data engineers process.
what is prebounce?
Apps using contacts is a $#%$ing anxiety attack for me. The scum companies don't care. They just want more leads. But for me, it's this fear that they're going to spam my exes and old roommates and bosses and professors and landlords and everyone who ends up added to my contacts. Signal did that to me last week. This person I'm not on speaking terms with got Signal and it added us and announced to each other we were…
Not to be unkind but I suppose most people are not really traumatised by merely seeing someone's name, even if they're not on speaking terms with that person. It probably falls on the side of convenience for the vast majority. For the Signal org, it's possibly even an existential issue, since it helps them counter network effects in the incumbents. It's hard to expect them not to do it, then. Having said that, I thin…
There was an individual that I kept in my contacts, you see, for the the sole purpose that if he ever called me, I'd know to let it go to voicemail. We had been close long ago, but he stopped living in consensus reality and wasn't interested in treatment. I considered him disturbing but not immediately dangerous, just someone I didn't want to reconnect with.
When I installed Signal, he got the notification that I had done so, and immediately messaged me, along the lines of "Oh hey, you still exist! And I guess by the timing of this install, you must be at [security-focused event] this weekend, yeah? Hey let me tell you about my latest harebrained scheme..."
I understand that Signal needs to do that sort of connection to work behind the scenes, but they don't need to generate an alert on the guy's lock screen about me.
All the shady data schemes and dark patterns in todays idea of software business motivated me to look to my phone as an enemy and using the web cautiously all the time. Actually the idea of hyperconnected future in which 24/7 monitoring of the individuals will be normalised and mandatory makes me cringe. The Internet from force of good is turning to dystopian toolchain by the hour. And all is because we as society ca…
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I've noticed a bunch of spammers starting to strip out anything after the + and before the @. This is why I've long used a catch-all e-mail domain (subdomain.example.net) where I can put anything I want to the left of the @ sign and no one is the wiser for my real e-mail address.
Is there some service where I can easily create unlimited custom email addresses for a flat monthly fee? I want to use a unique email for each new website/service. That would go a long way to solving some data leak/privacy problems. The problem with custom domain is I have to maintain it right? I want a service which I don't have to maintain. I used to use new Yahoo accounts but they are a hassle and recently they di…
I also remember seeing one Show HN recently that offered similar functionality, but couldn't find it via search. The problem is that if the e-mail alias provider becomes popular enough, their subdomains are soon disqualified from being used when registering to sites.