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HalloApp: a digital space for people who you know and want to connect with

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Re: HalloApp: a digital space for people who you know and want to connect with

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Post by dang »

ladon86 wrote: post #5

Tip: it's not an official grammar rule, but in colloquial terms, scare quotes [1] are often used to indicate that the speaker is being sarcastic or that the quoted thing isn't actually true. So a typical American reader might infer from your title that this app is not _really_ "private" or "free". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes

I don't know if the submitted title ('Like Facebook, but smaller and “private” and “free” with no “ads”') was intended to be sarcastic, but since the OP itself does not include that language (with or without quotes), we've changed it above to something it does include.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: HalloApp: a digital space for people who you know and want to connect with

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Post by charcircuit »

princevegeta89 wrote: post #42
lelandfe wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We use your phone number to connect you with friends and family. Beyond that, we never collect, store or use any personal information and never show you ads. Never. For real. From their homepage. Contact Info and Contacts sharing are inherent to this app, it seems. It's worth noting that "beyond that, we never collect [more personal information]" is pretty clearly incorrect, since they do at least also collect cont…

"We're not selling your data, we're sharing it" Hmmm what is that supposed to mean? If they're sharing it they're doing it for a business reason right

The first example that came to my mind is that they share the data with AWS. Nowadays it's pretty normal to use other people's computers to run your service.

Re: HalloApp: a digital space for people who you know and want to connect with

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Post by kube-system »

pessimizer wrote: post #44
kube-system wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are more commonly used just to communicate to the reader about which part of the headline is paraphrased and which part is not. A subject’s diction can be very important in many news stories and so quotations of this type can communicate a lot of information in a short headline. It also indicates when a phrase is not editorial in nature, but a claim made by someone else.

Single-word quotes can't help but be taken out of context.

They can be used that way, but hard news sources typically use them in pretty unambiguous circumstances.

Like ‘Disaster left “devastating” path of destruction, says mayor’

Re: HalloApp: a digital space for people who you know and want to connect with

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Post by thayne »

egberts1 wrote: post #20

Just let me stop you right there as I reiterate what Apple App Store has to say about HalloApp and its privacy: Data Linked to You The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes: * Contact Info Phone number (your most prized privacy info). This is a FULL-STOP right there in these days and ages. * Contacts Contacts (your entire address book, who would wan…

My phone number is definitely not my "most prized privacy info." If it was I'd be in trouble because there are all sorts of transactions, both digital and analog that require giving a phone number. At least in the US, if you refuse to give anyone your phone number, you'll have a hard time living a normal life.

And you compare to Signal, which also requires your phone number, and uses it as the primary identifier.

Re: HalloApp: a digital space for people who you know and want to connect with

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Post by TheRealNGenius »

saltedonion wrote: post #40

How are they going to address the problem of connection creep? (Over time the number of people you add to your friends network increase and cause context collapse)

That’s not a problem since they have no users.

Re: HalloApp: a digital space for people who you know and want to connect with

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Post by zaik »

egberts1 wrote: post #20

Just let me stop you right there as I reiterate what Apple App Store has to say about HalloApp and its privacy: Data Linked to You The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes: * Contact Info Phone number (your most prized privacy info). This is a FULL-STOP right there in these days and ages. * Contacts Contacts (your entire address book, who would wan…

Pretty sure Signal also collects your phone number.
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