Spacelocker, A Social Network To Avoid Like The Plague
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In my eyes, this is OK because it the page is clear about what they want and that it will email your contacts that you select.
Of course this is what I recall from when I signed up a while ago, so I could be wrong.
Personally, I'd never give an email password to a third party, no matter what they claim they'll do with it.
You'd think some of these companies are paying you, instead of the other way around.
It's a downside of using your email and password to log into sites - and obviously spacelocker does this deliberately given the number of complaints you can find on the net and their unwillingness to make their sign up clearer (or separate). Being a bit lazy, if it's a trusted site, I'm almost afraid to admit I've done it myself since it's convenient - I use my email and password to log into HN.
I'm assuming here the "support group" can't change the main page, and whoever CAN doesn't want to.
Too bad nobody is weevil enough to sign up a few million bogus new users.
Apparently some people don't like talking to users.
The lawyers that frame these footers don't want us to read, and so do everything possible to "help" us "ignore" these.
That said, nothing stops them from adding a single line of useless info, slap the font size at 8, and add the fineprint too as 8 font size.
Something better can be thought of, but there needs to be some law. Those fineprints are read by only those damn lawyers who write them.