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Not OK, Cupid. (www.fastmail.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I don’t usually like to call out the bad behaviour of specific companies, but the egregious mis-design and lack of acknowledging it justify this case.

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[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This seems to be an article by the CEO of fastmail about how someone is scraping the Internet for email addresses and signing up for ok Cupid accounts, to spam or something, and ok Cupid doesn't validate email addresses.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

SEEMS, sem? Nay , it is. I know not seems.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

someone

Oh you mean Match Group?

It's AshleyMadison all over again, shocker.

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

Oh cool, I have a free OK cupid account I can delete? Fun!