Icks on Yik Yak | PSA: the latest Yik Yak / Sidechat update contains the most brazen privacy violations I have ever seen, with no way to opt out without manually rejecting literal HUNDREDS of vendors. As someone addicted to this app (~150,000 yakkarma), I deleted it today.

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PSA: the latest Yik Yak / Sidechat update contains the most brazen privacy violations I have ever seen, with no way to opt out without manually rejecting literal HUNDREDS of vendors. As someone addicted to this app (~150,000 yakkarma), I deleted it today.

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Anonymous 15w

Selling data without consent with no restrictions, and making it impossible to opt out without manually revoking consent from hundreds of shady companies (including Oracle and worse), with footnotes implying that even opting out of every one of their hundreds of "customers'" data harvesting doesn't work.

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