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Zac T  
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 More options Dec 17 2007, 3:37 am
From: Zac T
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:37:54 -0800 (PST)
Local: Mon, Dec 17 2007 3:37 am
Subject: Re: New Feature: Sharing with Friends
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tonx's is the most important comment in several days of thread
traffic.

I ask Google: what was the point of the obfuscated URL in the first
place?  Haven't you completely negated that point by this
implementation?  You took choice out of the hands of your users.  Will
you soon start to choose whom to notify of the obfuscated URLs for our
other account information (notebooks? documents?).

I call EVIL on this implementation.

On Dec 15, 11:03 am, tonx wrote:

> For the last year I have used my obfuscated share URL for sharing
> market research with a small handful of trusted colleagues.  I have
> over 700 shared items which represent one of the most thorough
> catalogues of discourse about a very particular market in my
> industry.  Its absolutely intolerable to me that now all of my
> industry contacts (competitors) who are also gmail contacts will be
> able to mine this information as well as piece together fragments of
> other initiatives I've been considering.

> My only options to "opt-out" of this are to unshare 789 posts -
> effectively deleting an archive of research, or delete all my contacts
> from gmail.

> This is awful, awful, awful.  And I say this as someone who loves
> google and is rooting for them to make strides in the dubious social
> graph space.  This is a big misstep and I'm frankly shocked.

> On Dec 14, 6:14 pm, Google Reader Guide wrote:

> > Hi everybody,


 
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