Privacy Fail

[elz]

Etsy users irked after buyers, purchases exposed to the world

I've bought things from Etsy, and I had no idea they had done this. Nothing I've ever bought there is remotely embarrassing, but jeez - who expects to have to opt out of "show my purchases to everyone" on an online store?

For the record, you can reclaim your privacy by updating your settings, but until you do so manually, your name, email, purchases and favorites are all public and searchable.

Comments

[juniperphoenix]

THANK YOU. I saw this as I was scrolling down my Network page and immediately went to change my settings.

[autumnus]

...wonderful. was planning to use etsy to sell some art, now need to look for another website.

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[(Anonymous)]

Chris,As far as I know, currently that's the lsowet level of permissions that you can request from Flickr. If you know where you saw this, send me a link and I'll try to figure out what they did.