Star OSnews Switches to Gravatar
Linked by Adam S on Thu 8th Oct 2009 18:56 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes OSnews is in the process of converting our self-hosted avatars to Gravatar.com, a global recognized avatar service hosted by Automattic, the team behind Wordpress publishing platform and Wordpress.com. Effective immediately, we've disallowed uploads of new OSnews avatars. Please consider registering a gravatar to use a personalized account picture on OSnews.com.
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RE: gravatar? bah, data mining
by Adam S on Fri 9th Oct 2009 13:53 UTC in reply to "gravatar? bah, data mining"
Adam S
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2005-04-01

Could OSnews _please_ remove the statement "OSNews does not share this address with any third party and does not display it publically" from the preferences page? It's not true anymore, after all.


I'm sorry, but this is PATENTLY false, and it is the perfect example of what we in this industry call "FUD."

We put an md5 encrypted string in a the source code. We do not share your email address. Currently, you will need a cluster of servers to reverse encrypt that: if you're willing to gain those resources to harvest my email address, please just see my profile and save yourself the energy.

The gravatar people are just doing a string comparison: if the encrypted hash matches an encrypted hash they have, they present the avatar.

Please take your whining elsewhere, since it's based on what amounts to lie.

Once again: we do NOT share your email address.

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