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I'm genuinely curious- what's keeping people on Skype? There are better alternatives out there now (Google+ Hangouts, for example). Will this push any of you Skype users over?
Hangouts are very different use case from Skype. Skype is a messaging platform, g-hangout is a teleconference platform. They have intersecting, but not identical uses.
In August I received an email from Skype thanking me for registering an account. But I already had an account, I didn't register this one. After comparing the new account name with part of my email, I came to the conclusion that someone mistyped their email address, and registered an account on my address. I contacted their live support, here's the conversation: George A: Hello! Welcome to Skype Live Support! My name…
Turing test failure, or highly trained human? I'm not sure.
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I do it, and have done it for a pretty long time. In the vast majority of cases, it's (almost) in the form of sitename@myemailaccount.com - which is usually pretty easy to remember. If someone was directly targeting me, and had my email address from another site, they could probably figure out what I'd used elsewhere. But if it's just a script running through email addresses harvested from site A, then mine will almo…
Nice way to find where spam comes from. Sadly this is at best a complicated workaround, that will will work for people that are motivated enough to remember for each different service a separate email and password and additionally to this you have to remember as well the credentials to manage your email address and check the emails from different sites. In my case it would mean having about 100 email addresses.
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Because I don't want to sign up for Google+. I dislike the idea of bundling their social data mining solution with just about anything, like a less obvious and impossible to opt-out version of whatever-toolbar bundled with software years ago.
and you strangely believe microsoft isn't doing the same thing with skype's data?