So someone wrote feedback for the aforementioned dildo?
How's that for satisfied customers.
What confuses me is that the privacy setting says:
PURCHASES
Who can see your purchases?
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EDIT: I'll try to think out loud here and update as I wrap my head around this.
One of the examples states that he found a woman's results by her favourites. Those have always been an (opt-in) part of the privacy settings as I know.
The question is a) how he tied her favourites to her person on Google, and b) how the former example tied the purchase (or favourite, or buyer feedback) to the person. In (b), I haven't found anything that explicitly says that the woman was identified - just that some woman's dildo-related purchase was somehow visible.
Did they know the person by their user name and identify the person, or were the full names somehow visible, which created the - justified - outrage?
I hope this is a misunderstanding, but there are still some unanswered questions. Etsy deserves the benefit of the doubt, of course.
replacing <user_name> with your own (wait for it) user name, your feedback history will show up.
I have not found any way to disable this.
This is, ipso facto, not contingent on the new privacy settings. It's a problem, but nothing points to it being a new one. I can't form a causal relationship like Ars Technica does based on this.
How's that for satisfied customers.
What confuses me is that the privacy setting says:
*EDIT: I'll try to think out loud here and update as I wrap my head around this.
One of the examples states that he found a woman's results by her favourites. Those have always been an (opt-in) part of the privacy settings as I know.
The question is a) how he tied her favourites to her person on Google, and b) how the former example tied the purchase (or favourite, or buyer feedback) to the person. In (b), I haven't found anything that explicitly says that the woman was identified - just that some woman's dildo-related purchase was somehow visible.
Did they know the person by their user name and identify the person, or were the full names somehow visible, which created the - justified - outrage?
I hope this is a misunderstanding, but there are still some unanswered questions. Etsy deserves the benefit of the doubt, of course.
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UPDATE: Using this link:
replacing <user_name> with your own (wait for it) user name, your feedback history will show up.I have not found any way to disable this.
This is, ipso facto, not contingent on the new privacy settings. It's a problem, but nothing points to it being a new one. I can't form a causal relationship like Ars Technica does based on this.
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Hopefully last update:
This all seems to be supported by Etsy's CEO: http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/03/etsy-users-irked-aft....
I don't know how display of purchases (not buyer feedback) was handled before, but I'll leave that head-ache for someone else to figure out.
Let's hope that Ars Technica own up to this correction and rectifies it.
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Addendum:
Seller feedback is also public like Buyer feedback. Caveat emptor indeed.
cf. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2325006