Comment by musicale
3 years ago
> I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy
looks like it can indeed
> Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)
How surprising that someone might object to being included in a demonstration of the erosion of privacy!
Is the site opt-in or opt-out?
I doubt they asked 78k users for permission when there's no standardized way of reaching out if you're not a site admin. It's opt out if anything.
You opt into making your writing publicly available when making posts on this site. I’m not sure what Ycombinator’s user agreement* says about this, but it is pretty obvious that they haven’t done anything to prevent it (and it isn’t clear what they could do).
* and I mean they author of the tool is here making posts, so I guess they have agreed to the TOS, but clearly someone who hasn’t agreed to it could also make this tool and scrape out publicly available posts without agreeing to anything.