Orkut had this same problem. They started showing who looked at your profile. For a lot of people that was when they crossed the line and they started getting tired of the social network. I'm from Brazil, by the way, Orkut was dominant here until last year.
If there is enough backlash, they will cave. Do you think there will be sufficient backlash? I do not.
the link returns this :
"Error establishing a database connection"
Sorry about that. The blog was blown away :-) It should be ok now...
Its down again, same error
It should be ok. I'll also add a pasted something
Still down. Google doesn't have a cache either. While you're getting your site fixed, can you paste the post into a pastebin or something? This is one I really want to read!