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26 points by meganibla 8 years ago · 11 comments

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canadianwriter 8 years ago

A design like that and name + attitude like that is going to get this swept under the rug. Branding does actually mean something even for movements like this.

the idea is okayish, but the execution of this design and domain is childish.

  • gota 8 years ago

    I'm not forwarding this to my colleagues based on the name alone.

swimmadude66 8 years ago

A lot of people in here complaining about the (admittedly clever) name. Seems like the bigger issue is whether you have any chance of them even responding to your license request. What is your chance of winning a legal battle with them if they keep your data and don't pay you?

  • sova 8 years ago

    Right, there have to be stringent stipulations that they can only hold the data for a set period of time, it must be deleted and zeroed out in the right way, and they have to make a new request when their license time on it expires. Overall, it's completely feasible, but still a totally new area of consumer protection.

tropdrop 8 years ago

I just read the green text in this and looking back at this white page afterwards, I can barely read anything thanks to afterimages... For a few seconds I felt like I was going blind. What is the purpose of them trying to visually assault the people they're purportedly giving advice to?

Endy 8 years ago

I want one answer here: Have you done this? Did they pay you? Otherwise, why are you trying to shop it around here? This is a nice idea, but until there is proof, it belongs on Medium and other platforms as a theory, not a website purporting to have a solution.

  • smoyer 8 years ago

    Plus neither of those services actually ever deletes your data or stops collecting more. I've never had a Facebook account and yet it knows plenty about me.

    • rapnie 8 years ago

      Genuine question: how do you know that? Just assuming based on their practices, or do you have an other way to find out?

      • sova 8 years ago

        Targeted advertising that comes from hidden pixels and 3rd party sources (that Facebook was buying until just recently)

meganiblaOP 8 years ago

I have bowed to your pressure. I think becoming temporarily disabled by this color scheme is over exaggerated but hey here’s the new one that should be easier for you to process.

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