Privacy issue with OfferUp app

Posted by justincorbett on Monday April 24, 2017 @03:00PM
from the self-post dept.

Search for an item, but use someone's full name or just their last name. It will pull items from people with that name, even if they have removed their last name from the app.

Technically speaking, OfferUp has always been a terrible app (no iphone 7+ scaling, auto-correct, etc), but this is a new low.

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Re:Privacy issue with OfferUp app by boxcardavin on Monday April 24, 2017 @03:06PM (#14187056)

Offerup has always seemed like a half-baked app that barely works. It has always made me wonder if they do enough business to justify their investments and valuation. I will say that selling from mobile on there is much easier than any Craigslist solution, but the market feels very small even though I am 3 miles from their HQ.

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Re:Privacy issue with OfferUp app by justincorbett on Monday April 24, 2017 @03:39PM (#14187389)

Now they recommend I delete my last name from Facebook.

http://imgur.com/a/D8pmv

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