They're hardly the only messaging app which is quick to advertise how seriously they take the privacy of your messages but think nothing of uploading your entire contact list to their servers and sending a push message to all of them already on the service to tell them you've joined.
They take all your contacts, they tell everyone that you've joined and they can contact you, which is exactly what the article is complaining about.
The fact they do it in a cryptographically secure way does mean they haven't got your contact list stored on their servers for someone else to steal is good, but the shitty user experience of "hey we just messaged all your contacts for you" is still shitty.
But you'd at least think Clubhouse would have learned from the unicorns that came before it.
But they did learn! They learned that acquiring more users and moving metrics in the direction investors like to see at any costs is how you become a unicorn.
They only care about privacy in as much as it might block their growth or pose a risk to the business. The primary concern is pumping the numbers and doing anything they can get away with to get more market share, more investment, and eventually bring the early investors and founders a handsome payout.
Do you know how we can tell you didn't read the fine summary, which specifically says the problem is that you have to give them your phone number (not email address, so much harder to do with throwaway contact info), and they look it up in the contact list from everyone who did let them see their contacts?
The problem is not that Clubhouse is somehow sneaking looks at your contact list after you say no -- it has nothing to do with YOUR phone's operating system or its privacy implementation. It's that they a
They're hardly the only messaging app which is quick to advertise how seriously they take the privacy of your messages but think nothing of uploading your entire contact list to their servers and sending a push message to all of them already on the service to tell them you've joined.
Looking at you Signal and Telegram...
No. It just tells *everyone* that you've joined and if you're in someone else's contacts, it pops up your name for them.
Telling everyone is still bad. This is literally what this article is about.
They take all your contacts, they tell everyone that you've joined and they can contact you, which is exactly what the article is complaining about.
The fact they do it in a cryptographically secure way does mean they haven't got your contact list stored on their servers for someone else to steal is good, but the shitty user experience of "hey we just messaged all your contacts for you" is still shitty.
But you'd at least think Clubhouse would have learned from the unicorns that came before it.
But they did learn! They learned that acquiring more users and moving metrics in the direction investors like to see at any costs is how you become a unicorn.
They only care about privacy in as much as it might block their growth or pose a risk to the business. The primary concern is pumping the numbers and doing anything they can get away with to get more market share, more investment, and eventually bring the early investors and founders a handsome payout.
Do you know how we can tell you didn't read the fine summary, which specifically says the problem is that you have to give them your phone number (not email address, so much harder to do with throwaway contact info), and they look it up in the contact list from everyone who did let them see their contacts?
The problem is not that Clubhouse is somehow sneaking looks at your contact list after you say no -- it has nothing to do with YOUR phone's operating system or its privacy implementation. It's that they a