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Mining interesting data about your name

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8 pointslazy_nerd19 comments

Wish I could just enter a name. I don't use my social media logins to sign in to other sites any longer.

We wanted to prevent automated bots from sending too many queries at once - that's why we kept the social login. If you are still concerned, you could authenticate with a fake Twitter or FB account or revoke the permissions after trying it out.

That seems to me to be a terrible and Byzantine solution to a very easily resolved problem. So easily resolved in fact that I question whether this is really the reason why or are you harvesting data for some other purpose?

I too never use my facebook or twitter logins for anything unless it's absolutely critical.

It sounds like it could be fun otherwise.

If only there was some other way to implement rate limiting....

Wo don't you just use a captcha?

yeah, I wonder why we didn't think of that option. We will definitely switch to that.

Make sure to resubmit with [FIXED] so I can give it a shot.

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Nope, the social login is just to prevent too many queries. We are planning to switch to Captcha in a day or two instead of social login.

If it's just to prevent too many queries, why does it require such powerful permissions for my Twitter account?

- See who you follow, and follow new people.

- Update your profile.

- Post Tweets for you.

Same. This is just silly.

Made by beevolve a company who:

> Monitor your brand mentions, schedule and launch social media posts and measure resulting sales and engagement for those posts - all in one easy-to-use platform. Designed for SMBs.

Yeah,sure. Why don't I just give you access to my social networking accounts. That sounds like a fantastic idea…

We will be switching to captcha in a day or so - if you want to give it a try after that.

I don't know you, I don't trust you, and I won't be giving you my social login.

Should've just had it let us enter our names with a simple captcha.

"Ben Dover" sure is a popular name... https://www.evernote.com/shard/s97/sh/5a445178-f0ab-4eb2-863...

Why does the app need permission to post tweets for me? Not a chance, sorry.

You can read about why we developed the app here: http://www.beevolve.com/whats-in-my-name/

good work !

No, c'mon, I won't login with twitter or facebook.

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