Comment by Aachen
3 years ago
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.
3 years ago
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.