At least Bluesky has an excuse of not being a Fortune 50 company. What’s Microsoft’s excuse?

‘We built it 30 years ago, it’s sort of compatible with everything and we will never deprecate.’

It’s not a good excuse…

Sending your id to a social media IS a scam.

By email... Just to add insult to injury

What definition of the word scam are you using here? What promise of a product that you pay for that isn't being delivered, with uploading your id to a site on the Internet?

I'm not gonna get hoodwinked into highbrow shenanigans. Social media doesn't need IDs to work, demanding it is a scam.

Defining a word isn't "highbrow shenanigans", although I guess it depends on how you define that.

If you think social media needs your ID for any reasonable cause, we're free to disagree on that. My point was clear, bullshit technicalities on the word scam are meaningless when you understand the meaning.

Rhetoric won't save you from the embarrassing situation you created for yourself. You accused something of being a scam without understanding the definition of the word. Now that your claim has been challenged, you're trying to redefine terms and argue around the issue rather than admit you were wrong.

From dictionary.cambridge.org: a dishonest plan for making money or getting an advantage, especially one that involves tricking people:

I can easily see a social media company demanding an ID falling under this definition if the accuser believes that the actual use of said ID will be different or more expansive than implied. That is not an unreasonable assumption, IMO.

Microsoft is the 4th largest company in the world.

There should be a long list of companies whose policies are worse than theirs.

That doesn't follow. I would expect the list of companies worst than Microsoft to be about 4 items long

Hard to beat Outlook 2007 which had some "smart tags" feature that all referenced "5iantlavalamp.com", and things started breaking when that domain expired.

I'm struggling to find information about this and it's extremely interesting.

Would you please explain more?

It's hard to remember many details from almost 20 years ago, I just remember coming across it in email spools while writing anti-spam analysis scripts. Only mention I can find nowadays is https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22812691/What-is-....

I simultaneously don’t believe this and fully believe this is something they would do. Do you have any sources on this?

It's amazing how little information has survived: the only reference I can find right away is https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22812691/What-is-...

I was working in anti-spam at the time, so I was eyeballing a lot of raw email dumps and writing analysis scripts for "anomalous" urls, so it popped up fairly frequently.

The primary problem is we can't search through time via WayBack Machine where a lot of these things have gone. Took me a while the other day to surface the Choco-Banana Shake Hang which Microsoft deleted from their production site.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000608173453/http://support.mi...

There are a few archives of Microsoft KB articles. I found this article in Beta Archive wiki's, which has a full-text search. https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Microsoft_K...

This is good news. I fear for those poor souls struggling with their Blendolinis.

This story is ludicrous… yet, it seems to check out. https://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/rules/25_uri... says this is one of the "Top 125 domains whitelisted by SURBL", and there's an answer on the hyphen site about it: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22812691/What-is-.... Can someone with a Bottom-Surgery account tell us the details?

The Master-Gender-Switch answer doesn't actually answer, it's just an external link that is now broken.

This is the archived version of that link: https://web.archive.org/web/20110204205739/http://www.people...

Ah I misremembered one thing, nothing broke because it wasn’t even an existing domain when they used it. That was a different Microsoft domain I was thinking of.