So, if you were thinking about using that particular app to read some feed containing something relatively private, guess what, they're reading it too.
Which one? No names were named at any point in this post.
Which one? No names were named at any point in this post.
Why??
You know, that character trait for DnD that determines how gullible your character is? LIE ability was it? Row 3 d20 to LIE check?!
I think there needs to be a balance between "if you really want to research this alleged invasion of privacy then you should look here" and "that guy is bad, everybody go harass him". I haven't seen the logs and I haven't read the company's website in detail, so I'm not going to point the finger at someone for what could be a misunderstanding.
Maybe the website does point out this behavior. Maybe it's a badly configured script. Maybe it's as bad as described. I certainly don't know and I'd rather not join an internet mob until I've done my due diligence.
This is an amazing way to express an extremely important concept, one that unfortunately doesn't have enough representation on the internet. Kudos.
I am often told What A Bad Boy I Am, because I won't tell.
I cry myself to sleep over it, every night.
I assumed the opposite: she knows that she has readers who will go trash on the developers of whatever random app she happens to be criticizing and doesn't want to be responsible for inciting an internet mob.
In this case she provided enough information that anyone who was seriously concerned about their feed reader could easily find out if it was theirs—searching for the quoted text turns up the guilty RSS reader, her post, and a rip-off of the guilty reader which re-uses their marketing blurb.
That's easy enough for someone who's motivated to find out if they're safe, but maybe not enough for a mob to form?