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Re:How Google Buzz Is Disruptive by sketerpot on Thursday February 11, 2010 @03:19AM (#1117203)
I had to click a button to enable Buzz. Did they change their sign-up policy at some point?
Re:How Google Buzz Is Disruptive by ewjordan on Thursday February 11, 2010 @03:46AM (#1117245)
Same here - logged into Gmail and I was forced to choose whether to go into Buzz or old fashioned Gmail. Maybe they're tinkering with the process or something...

I'd have to agree, though, that the default of following everyone that you e-mail is a bit extreme, especially if everyone else can see it, too. Probably better to at least offer people a choice, either follow all, follow none, or manually select.

As far as privacy violations go, though, I don't see this one as very major. I'd expect that with all the complaining going on, this behavior will be changed very soon.

Re:How Google Buzz Is Disruptive by bmj on Thursday February 11, 2010 @07:20AM (#1117462)
Me, too.

It was available for mobile users immediately, but it also didn't seem to be integrated into mobile GMail when I first looked at it.