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Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using Verification Software "Au10tix" (www.mintpressnews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 135 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Sometimes I have to wonder, what's it going to take to make people leave X?

I mean, it was a shithole even before Musk bought it, 4 years ago, and it's gotten predictably and steadily worse ever since.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 71 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's not just twitter, this software is also used by airbnb, linkedin, and paypal.

[–] Businesskasper@feddit.org 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

k I need an alternative to paypal now :(

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Paypal is pretty much the ground zero of evil in the world.

[–] zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Thiel himself said 4/6 of the founders were making bombs back in HS.

[–] dan69@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Now I have to remove LinkedIn - this a good reason! It over reduces my cyber footprint overall. I only have it bc it’s required for a places that I’ve applied about 60-70%.

[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They did me the favor of removing my account when they asked for my ID "to protect my identity".

[–] dan69@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Sound phake! I’m over skeptical of the new real id thing overall so I won’t be bothering with it until the last moment.

[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 months ago

It's a live experiment. How much a platform can enshittify before people leave? We are still going to find it out.

[–] LaoiseFu@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

4 years?! Is this purgatory?