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Re:Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is abo... by yaacov on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:49AM (#23280584)
First off, thanks again for taking the time to speak with us on HN.

I think you’re missing/avoiding the issue that people might want to hide the very fact that they have a Triplebyte account at all. It implies that they have job hunted in the last 5 or so years, and someone who’s been at a single company for longer than that might not want that information to be available.

I work at Google, and I can tell you as a fact that our Privacy Working Groups would never let us launch something like this without explicit user consent.

Re:Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is abo... by areyousure on Saturday May 23, 2020 @03:44PM (#23285764)
Re:Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is abo... by seebs on Saturday May 23, 2020 @04:10PM (#23285952)
Google did something significantly worse -- and spent ages apologizing for it and never really recovered from the reputation hit, and I suspect that negative impressions Buzz gave people were a contributing factor to G+'s total failure.
Re:Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is abo... by eitland on Sunday May 24, 2020 @01:49AM (#23289431)
> and I suspect that negative impressions Buzz gave people were a contributing factor to G+'s total failure.

Absolutely.

Google+ became really nice towards the end, but HN kept hating it, and I guess partly because of Buzz.

Re:Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is abo... by throwphoton on Saturday May 23, 2020 @05:13PM (#23286505)
Wow...

> Google Buzz publicly disclosed (on the user's Google profile) a list of the names of Gmail contacts that the user has most frequently emailed or chatted with.

Google Buzz is something you definitely don't want to be similar to.

Re:Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is abo... by yaacov on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:47AM (#23292332)
The disaster that was Google Buzz has left a thick bureaucratic scar tissue designed to prevent something like that from happening again.

Here’s an old article about it: https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/26/technology/google_privacy/i...

I suspect TripleByte is about to learn some similar lessons.