On: Backblaze Privacy Update: Third-Party Tracking

[freebuju]

Yeah. Backblaze are addressing this "blunder" only because they got caught. Not because they give 2 shits about their customer's privacy.

The smug tone in this joke of a response to the issue proves this.

[bellyfullofbac → freebuju]

Man, your distrust seems toxic to me. The simplest explanation is they goofed as they admitted, if they were malicious, they'd upload those file names from their server straight to FB's, not through your god damned browser.

And of course they only addressed it after they "got caught", they didn't know about their fuck up before that, if you want to sneer at them, sneer at them for not being careful enough to let this happen, not what you wrote.

I'm not trying to defend them, more like I want to protest against ungrounded casual insulting bashes like yours that seems way too freaking common nowadays. I do think they care about customer privacy, because it affects their income. (Admiteddly they were too casual about it, they were still partnering with Facebook...).

[mPReDiToR → bellyfullofbac]

I agree with you in principle.

That said, this way of doing things gives so much plausible deniability that it must at least occur to people.

We've been burned on so many fronts by so many companies that it really is a learned behaviour to toxically distrust when things like this happen.

It starts with politics. They're never held accountable for lying, evwn brazenly.

[sdfhbdf → freebuju]

never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity