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Re: [108attendees] Meetecho participant pics

Robert Moskowitz <rgm@labs.htt-consult.com> Mon, 27 July 2020 21:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [108attendees] Meetecho participant pics
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On 7/27/20 4:36 PM, John Levine wrote:
> In article <0bca5ca1-1f1e-f13c-f64b-7f9787be6271@labs.htt-consult.com> you write:
>> Exactly my concern.
>>
>> I don't HAVE a Wordpress account; why do I need one?
> A few seconds of clicking reveals that Gravatar is run by Automattic
> which is better known as Wordpress.com. That's why you need a
> Wordpress account, it *is* Wordpress.
I am not aware of any business reason for me to get a Wordpress account.

Ergo I will not have a gravatar.

Simple.

Others will undoubtedly have a different calculus.

>
> They have a detailed privacy policy here:
>
> https://automattic.com/privacy/
>
> It's pretty reasonable, no sale of info to third parties, the most
> evil thing they do is use your profile info to target ads on their
> site, which doesn't apply to Gravatar since it's not providing ads,
> just mapping hashes of addresses to pictures. I've had my Gravatar set
> up for ages including for some addresses that only Wordpress knows and
> I've never gotten any unexpected spam to those addresses.
>
> I suspect it wouldn't be terribly hard to use the Datatracker pix instead
> but I'd put it pretty low on the list of things to do.
>
> R's,
> John
>

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