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Not OK, Cupid. (www.fastmail.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

someone

Oh you mean Match Group?

It's AshleyMadison all over again, shocker.

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

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