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Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

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Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

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Post by axx »

I really have the feeling we're all merely getting sold to advertisers. Where are the real innovations from tech people? It is not about "social interaction", in many ways it's only about getting as much data from the user as possible, to sell it.

I can't say how much i hate the "social trend" in this era of the internet boom.

"Yeah, our Product is a ripoff of Product X (proof concept, existing since 2000) BUT WE ADDED SOCIAL TO IT, ZOMG!!11"

What's bugging me even more is the fact, that there're so many stupid VCs who think they'll invest in the next big thing and support stupid ideas, too blind to see real innovations.

Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

#32

Post by Jacqued »

waterlesscloud wrote: post #10
peto123 wrote: post #2

This is disturbing. I hope this will not become a trend.

I don't think it will spread too much. Nothing would kill Facebook quicker than then implementing this, for example.

Agreed. I'm on the verge of leaving facebook, I've been for quite some time. Their stupid change in chat (people know when you read what they wrote) almost made me quit, but Chrome extensions to disable it allowed me to stay.

With such a move, I would not stay one day longer on the "service".

Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

#33

Post by dt7 »

mikebracco wrote: post #8

Well as Eric Schmidt said, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place." ;) http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/21/top-10-the-quotable-e...

I got the impression that by doing "it" he meant searching Google for it, not actually doing it. I think most people realise that Google works by tracking what you search for, so it makes sense that if you want something to remain unknown, you shouldn't search Google for it.

Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

#34

Post by minikomi »

Off topic I guess, but to me Quora seems to have passed it's peak for updates to topics which I find interesting, unfortunately. I was not an early adopter, and joined when the gated-community phase ended, selected my topics and enjoyed quite a few good answers. A week later I opened it up on a train ride, but the content had not changed at all.

And, perhaps more tellingly, in each topic the few scraps of fresh activity each time I've opened the app since have been from exactly the same users.

Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

#35

Post by Jacqued »

tijs wrote: post #30
samstave wrote: post #9

Quora is in the same boat as FB (and to a certain extent, Twitter) They think that the experience of their largely 20-something staff is anything short of revolutionary. A bunch of kids running a digital media company with questionable morals and no connection to digital history. I will delete me Quora account. So far I have gotten little value from it. Time for it to have no data on me. Deactivated! Edit: I followed…

apparently you have to e-mail privacy@quora.com to get your account deleted completely. That in itself is reason to delete your account btw. It speaks volumes of their regard for users and their privacy.

Unfortunately this bad practice is widely adopted and only spreading.

It's this kind of BS that makes me create fake facebook or twitter accounts to log on shady sites like Quora.

Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

#36

Post by iaskwhy »

0x0 wrote: post #16

Quora has gone the way of expert-sexchange, showing up in Google search results for interesting questions, but then overlaying/replacing most answers with blur and "sign up to read". Borderline SERP cloaking, to say the least.

It's actually worse because with expert-sexchange you can scroll to the bottom to read the answers. Not so much with Quora, right?

Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

#37

Post by irahul »

0x0 wrote: post #16

Quora has gone the way of expert-sexchange, showing up in Google search results for interesting questions, but then overlaying/replacing most answers with blur and "sign up to read". Borderline SERP cloaking, to say the least.

> Quora has gone the way of expert-sexchange, showing up in Google search results for interesting questions, but then overlaying/replacing most answers with blur and "sign up to read".

This shit doesn't fly with Google. Delivering different content to Google bot and the user coming through search makes Google looks like a fool, since the user is unable to find the content he searched for. That is why expert-sexchange shows answers at the bottom when Google is your referrer.

If Quora is pulling up this shit, Google will penalize it. I think it's more likely Quora is simply hiding content behind css.

Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

#38

Post by samstave »

tijs wrote: post #30
samstave wrote: post #9

Quora is in the same boat as FB (and to a certain extent, Twitter) They think that the experience of their largely 20-something staff is anything short of revolutionary. A bunch of kids running a digital media company with questionable morals and no connection to digital history. I will delete me Quora account. So far I have gotten little value from it. Time for it to have no data on me. Deactivated! Edit: I followed…

apparently you have to e-mail privacy@quora.com to get your account deleted completely. That in itself is reason to delete your account btw. It speaks volumes of their regard for users and their privacy.

Thanks,

It was non-obvious as to whom I needed to contact... Ill try that email as well.

EDIT: Done.

Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

#39

Post by unimpressive »

samstave wrote: post #9

Quora is in the same boat as FB (and to a certain extent, Twitter) They think that the experience of their largely 20-something staff is anything short of revolutionary. A bunch of kids running a digital media company with questionable morals and no connection to digital history. I will delete me Quora account. So far I have gotten little value from it. Time for it to have no data on me. Deactivated! Edit: I followed…

Don't forget /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 quora.com www.quora.com

Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

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Post by samstave »

unimpressive wrote: post #39
samstave wrote: post #9

Quora is in the same boat as FB (and to a certain extent, Twitter) They think that the experience of their largely 20-something staff is anything short of revolutionary. A bunch of kids running a digital media company with questionable morals and no connection to digital history. I will delete me Quora account. So far I have gotten little value from it. Time for it to have no data on me. Deactivated! Edit: I followed…

Don't forget /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 quora.com www.quora.com

While I see that - its not that I dont want to be able to access them it is more that I want all data associated to me to be deleted...
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