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Re:Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology by treis on Monday May 25, 2020 @03:05PM (#23303846)
Nobody is mad about a "feature". They're mad because Triplebyte made sensitive private data public.
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Re:Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology by Silhouette on Monday May 25, 2020 @03:30PM (#23304096)
They're mad because Triplebyte made sensitive private data public.

And engaged in a host of dark patterns that made it difficult for people to effectively respond to that, for example by getting the data deleted and cancelling any account they had. The problem wasn't just the original error in judgement, serious as that was. It was the doubling down on it in both the implementation and the handling of the criticism when it was announced.

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Re:Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology by RobertRoberts on Monday May 25, 2020 @03:23PM (#23304026)
This ^. This is the issue.

Calling it only a "feature" is just downright twisting the facts.

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Re:Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology by colejohnson66 on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:02PM (#23304379)
Except they didn’t make any data public. Yes, they were going to, but they hadn’t yet.
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