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Re:Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his fri... by sp332 on Friday February 12, 2010 @09:03AM (#1120540)
Look, people aren't making this stuff up. I'm not sure of the circumstances yet (maybe just the first batch?), but there are a lot of people who were automatically added to Buzz without a prompt.
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Re:Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his fri... by pasbesoin on Friday February 12, 2010 @10:21AM (#1120739)
Upon signing in to Gmail, I was directed to some sort of Buzz landing page / prompt. I deliberately chose 'no / continue what I was doing'. (I wasn't aware of any problem, so I didn't make a point of memorizing the presentation.)

Upon proceeding in to Gmail, I found that I was participating in Buzz, with IIRC 14 follows.

My more general reaction to this situation, including a similar, serious security implication for a close family member, I'll comment on elsewhere in this thread.

Briefly: You fucked up bigtime, Google. The people truly responsible for this need to be terminated.

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Re:Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his fri... by lutorm on Friday February 12, 2010 @11:08AM (#1120868)
Me too. I just logged into my gmail account (which I don't use) and got a buzz page. I deliberately did not click the huge "Okay" button but instead the tiny "Nah", but then there was still a buzz tab and I had to click the very not obvious link at the bottom to turn it off.
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