Re:Show HN: I made online community for unusual people
by Gik on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @06:18PM
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Thanks, chachachoney a lot for your feedback! Yes, privacy issues is the concern here. I mentioned that the site collects some information about users in the Privacy Policy page. Registration on the site not requires private data except email address. The Google Analytics code collects information about users' browsers, computers and their activity, nothing especially personal.
Re:Show HN: I made online community for unusual people
by chachachoney on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @04:39PM
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>>The Google Analytics code collects information about users' browsers, computers and their activity, nothing especially personal.
That's more than enough to personally identify a user. Given the sensitive nation of your site, it's one thing to ask users to trust your motives, it's another one to expect them to trust google, etc...
>>Don’t worry, we’re not sharing any of your private information with anyboby and not asking for it except for your Email address.
It's good that you're aware of privacy concerns that your users might have, but you're going to have to do a lot more to gain your users trust, especially given that the current site uses 3rd party tracking and you don't mention anything about it.
In addition, nearly all of the additional features proposed by the site are predicated on partnerships for services that are ripe for user data exploitation. Providing them in a manner that is respectful of users data and privacy is the real challenge in this space.