Comments on: User Interface Peeve: Giving the User No Options to Skip an Unwanted Step

By: lisaflor

lisaflor — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:00:35 +0000

hmm, has anyone seen NamesDatabase.com? I’m not really sure if it’s one of those “invasive” sites, but I do get “updates” every month, which I just delete hehe. I used a fake name, but I did use my yahoo email ad, so…

By: Yaari is a Scam!!! It invades your privacy and SPAMs your contacts. : The D Spot

Yaari is a Scam!!! It invades your privacy and SPAMs your contacts. : The D Spot — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:38:40 +0000

[...] You will find more of this here and here. Also, Angelo has posted something similar, this time with tagged.com. Read it here. [...]

By: vance

vance — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:11:55 +0000

@ia ah I see. Sorry about that. I thought our email account should be private for some reason. But as you said the site should explicitly tell its subscriber the specific reason on why they ask for it. I’m used to web services asking for my email account but not my email account password. So it was a first time for me to hear about this.

By: ia

ia — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:50:17 +0000

Vance, lots of web applications ask for your email address and its password and it’s okay—- so long as they explicitly tell you they want access to your address book and you’ve agreed. I see lots of applications accessing other site accounts these days especially because of the public APIs they’re releasing. Examples: blog posting + Flickr; Twitter + TwitterFeed/Twittervision/any other Twitter mashup out there; Facebook + Facebook apps.

I think I’ve subconsciously marked Tagged as spam in my Yahoo! account because I really don’t want to join another social network. I’m sure their behavior can be remedied by a blog backlash, especially by the big Web 2.0 guys. Has anybody from TechCrunch or Mashable! blogged about this yet? I’d be surprised if they didn’t.

By: vance

vance — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:19:54 +0000

By the way, no decent web service will ask for your email account password. So Yah its a phising site.

By: Jack Of All Blogs → Blog Archive » I’m Steering Clear of Tagged.com (You Should, Too!)

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:16:43 +0000

[...] and I thought I might give it a try. I signed up and it seemed simple enough until I got to the screen prompting me to enter my Gmail password. I thought, WTF? What kind of phishing scheme is this? It doesn’t even give me an option to [...]

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:55:35 +0000

Looks like it’s a phishing site, indeed. Be warned!

By: vance

vance — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:10:10 +0000

I guess its scam site. It would be better for them to let you give the invites to anyone you like rather than forcing themselves to distribute their site invites.

thanks for the warning..