if you use okcupid there’s a new browser extension to keep the creeps away!
it’s amazing and you should download it
you should really reblog and share this it could actually save lives
THIS IS SO USEFUL!
Saves you the time of going through all the questions. I am happy okcupid throws in creeper filter questions
I’m glad the above post has gotten so many notes (6,600 plus!) in such a short time (about 24 hours!!).
That said, for the record:
- OkCupid does not throw in creeper filter questions. Users like you do.
- OkCupid’s website security is abysmal:
Every OkCupid email, chat session, search, clicked link, page viewed, and username is transmitted over the Internet in unencrypted plaintext, where it can be intercepted and read by anyone on the network.
- OkCupid’s privacy policy is actively exploitative:
Match.com now owns OkCupid, which means way more data sharing; Match.com itself is owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp, which owns more than 50 companies and websites including CitySearch.com, CollegeHumor.com, Ask.com, Vimeo.com, Chemistry.com, and UrbanSpoon.com. IAC’s Privacy Policy allow it to share information freely between the many companies and websites it owns, as well as “Other businesses with which [it] partner[s].†In other words, your OkCupid data can be shared freely among the 6th largest online network in the world. Not very private.
- OkCupid is a company with one and only one ultimate goal: to make money off of you. The company does not care about you, the human, they care about you the product. OkCupid has historically done very little to meaningfully protect you:
As social networks and dating websites become a more common means for facilitating physical-world sexual interaction between people, predators are increasingly using the information available in such networks to target victims. Some high-profile social networking and dating websites like Match.com attempt to protect their users from consent violations using deeply flawed processes, screening against national sex offender registries. The exploratory analysis outlined in this post suggests that there are better signals than blacklists like the sex offender registry, which has an enormous number of its own problems, for identifying problematic behavior across large clusters of users.”
PLEASE READ THOSE LINKS.
Only through unrelenting, unapologetic, and unending user advocacy can the corporate-controlled Internet be a place that serves you. It is currently a place where users like us are both consumer and consumed.
Are you wow’ed a thing like the Predator Alert Tool for OkCupid exists? It mostly uses technology that’s literally ten years old. Let’s fucking dream bigger.
I hope this tool makes you believe society can and should serve and protect you, not the other way around. The most powerful technology in the Predator Alert Tool for OkCupid is the simple idea that we can work together. I hope this tool inspires you to demand better from companies who profit off your data.
by Jessica Burde
23 May 2013 at 03:20
The situation with companies exploiting people as their products now reminds me of the situation with companies exploiting people as their workers 100 years ago. Just as companies didn’t implement safe working conditions, reasonable work hours, decent pay, etc until the workers organized and formed unions, companies today won’t implement real privacy practices, actual processes to protect users from predators or anything else that truly benefits us until we organize and demand it.
Not having the sanity to be the rabble rouser at this point, I’m finding more and more my protest takes the form of a personal boycott. Though untangling myself from Google is proving to be a long, slow and painful process.
Thanks for the heads up about OKC. One more site to be wary of.