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Re: Mining interesting data about your name

#3
post #2

Wish I could just enter a name. I don't use my social media logins to sign in to other sites any longer.

We wanted to prevent automated bots from sending too many queries at once - that's why we kept the social login. If you are still concerned, you could authenticate with a fake Twitter or FB account or revoke the permissions after trying it out.

Re: Mining interesting data about your name

#5
post #2

Wish I could just enter a name. I don't use my social media logins to sign in to other sites any longer.

We wanted to prevent automated bots from sending too many queries at once - that's why we kept the social login. If you are still concerned, you could authenticate with a fake Twitter or FB account or revoke the permissions after trying it out.

Wo don't you just use a captcha?

Re: Mining interesting data about your name

#6
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We wanted to prevent automated bots from sending too many queries at once - that's why we kept the social login. If you are still concerned, you could authenticate with a fake Twitter or FB account or revoke the permissions after trying it out.

Wo don't you just use a captcha?

yeah, I wonder why we didn't think of that option. We will definitely switch to that.

Re: Mining interesting data about your name

#7
post #2

Wish I could just enter a name. I don't use my social media logins to sign in to other sites any longer.

We wanted to prevent automated bots from sending too many queries at once - that's why we kept the social login. If you are still concerned, you could authenticate with a fake Twitter or FB account or revoke the permissions after trying it out.

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Re: Mining interesting data about your name

#8
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We wanted to prevent automated bots from sending too many queries at once - that's why we kept the social login. If you are still concerned, you could authenticate with a fake Twitter or FB account or revoke the permissions after trying it out.

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Nope, the social login is just to prevent too many queries. We are planning to switch to Captcha in a day or two instead of social login.
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