So why did we switch exactly…?

Deleted whatever personal info that I could over there, including any photos I could remember with my face in them.
Switched my email for that site to my long-held "decoy" email address - one I use for anything I have no interest in receiving info or spam from (one time vendors, apps, etc) but can go check if I need to, like for confirmation emails.

The ratio of insipid to informative posts over there is rapidly increasing.
 
If anyone has any luck getting all their posts deleted, it would be great if you could let us know here.

I don't really care about the privacy side of all this, given the posts are public anyway. However, I don't like their business model. If forcing them to delete the content makes it less viable for them, then I might try to get all my stuff removed too.
 
jaredoconnor said:
If anyone has any luck getting all their posts deleted, it would be great if you could let us know here.

I don't really care about the privacy side of all this, given the posts are public anyway. However, I don't like their business model. If forcing them to delete the content makes it less viable for them, then I might try to get all my stuff removed too.
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I was thinking about this in relation to Dustin's tantrum.
Honestly, why would they want to delete users. Part of their model is being able to advertise that they have XX users, the more they delete people/allow people to delete themselves, the less marketing power they have.

At the very least, I'm definitely going to go back and delete any posts that has my kid in. I don't think her face is in any, but still, I don't need that out there.
 
jaredoconnor said:
If anyone has any luck getting all their posts deleted, it would be great if you could let us know here.

I don't really care about the privacy side of all this, given the posts are public anyway. However, I don't like their business model. If forcing them to delete the content makes it less viable for them, then I might try to get all my stuff removed too.
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you can still edit your posts. so you could go in and change what is said on the post.
 
One would expect a new owner to have different rules, TOS/TOU, privacy, etc. Those changes can have a dramatic effect on a member rights/ownership of data on a site.

Google/PayPal etc. send emails out almost monthly about changes allowing people to have the knowledge of a change. That is the legal thing to do.

BUT what frosts my arse is VS changed the TOS/TOU without notifying anyone. They also did not prompt members to approve/accept the new TOS/TOU. Those changes, while not affecting everyone or not in a large way, does affect some greatly and they should be allowed to know and make decisions based on the new knowledge.

I negotiated and wrote contracts for a a number of years in my professional life. It is in the details aka fine print that matters. You hear all the time 'did do read the contract? and most of us do not. We should...
 
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Canada has huge ties to China, they buy tons of real estate, Vancouver BC has lots of real estate gobbled up by China. Basicly dont trust anything Canadian, or anything at all at this point.
 
FontinalisFin said:
Canada has huge ties to China, they buy tons of real estate, Vancouver BC has lots of real estate gobbled up by China. Basicly dont trust anything Canadian, or anything at all at this point.
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You don't even need to trust me/this site. We don't keep or use any of your info here, but I encourage everyone to get in the habit of signing up for online forums or anywhere else by using relays (which I explained in another thread). Whatever you can do to protect yourself.
 
RCF said:
BUT what frosts my arse is VS changed the TOS/TOU without notifying anyone. They also did not prompt members to approve/accept the new TOS/TOU. Those changes, while not affecting everyone or not in a large way, does affect some greatly and they should be allowed to know and make decisions based on the new knowledge.
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This is one of the things I didn't like. In addition, that Mike guy talked a big game about GDPR type protections, when the site clearly isn't compliant and probably never will be, given it doesn't serve their agenda.

One easy way to challenge their BS would be for a European citizen to submit a GDPR violation. I know the site did have a few European members.
 
If folks are motivated enough, you could pay a college CS kid to write a program to automate redacting the text in all your posts. It wouldn't be complicated. There are already tools to help with this sort of thing, such as Selenium and PhantomJS. I would do it, but I don't have time.
 
Not only do the suits make money from selling member information, there are advertisers so there must be some income they gain from those guys.
 
While I was never a prolific user of the WTF (wink wink), I found it to be very valuable to me, and I respected what it provided. I mostly kept my mouth shut, once I saw the news of the buyout, but I was fuming, as I've had plenty of experience on this kind of thing in the real world. When it hit me that information, advice and simply, just good fun, that I shared and received freely, was now being monetized, for someone else's benefit, it frankly p!$$3d me off. So, I edited my account, took down my pictures and removed content that could be searchable, that would ultimately benefit a hedge fund manager. Maybe it's silly, but so be it.
 
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That’s probably not a connection, if it exists, that you’d see on the surface. All that you’d see is that their chief legal officer is Diane Yu, educated in Toronto, or another corporate officer, Kyle Hyunjin Kim, from South Korea, who is in charge of their Internet forums (if I understand his job responsibilities correctly.)
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What are you insinuating here? That two of people on the leadership board that have Asian surnames are complicit in insidious data mining? I believe this thinking can be dangerous. Toronto has a higher population of folks with Asian descent, so it would be possible for VS to have a more diverse leadership board.

If you did a little bit more digging, you'd see that As of March 31, 2021, VerticalScope employed 238 employees, of which 175 were based in Canada, 44 were based in the U.S., 16 were based in Estonia and 3 were based in the Cayman Islands. (Source: https://privatecapitaljournal.com/nordstar-and-hedgewood-backed-verticalscope-files-for-ipo-on-tsx/). No mention of China or South Korea.

Furthermore, if you see who's backing Vertical Scope, you'll find an investment group called Torstar. Take a look at the senior level execs for Torstar - https://www.torstar.com/company/officers-and-senior-executive. All white people with Eurocentric surnames.

I believe your racial assumptions are incorrect here.
 
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