Venmo Considers Making it Harder to See What Other People Are Buying, Report Says (bloomberg.com) 32
Tap on the Venmo app on your phone, and chances are you'll greeted with a running list of payments made from one person to another for anything from brunch bills to rent payments. But the real-time ticker of strangers' spending habits could soon go away. From a report: In recent weeks, executives at PayPal, the parent company of Venmo, were weighing whether to remove the option to post and view public transactions, said a person familiar with the deliberations. It's unclear if those discussions are still ongoing, and regardless of the outcome, payments between friends would still be visible on the home feed, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. "Venmo is always evaluating what's best for our customers," a PayPal spokesman wrote in an emailed statement. "The safety and privacy of Venmo users and their information is always a top priority, and we do a number of things to keep our users informed and help them protect and control their privacy."
Re:What a thought privacy does matters (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm still wondering who in the unholy hell would even *want* to broadcast what they spend money on...
Re:What a thought privacy does matters (Score:5, Insightful)
Get with the times, we live in a braggart economy. If you aren't bragging on social media, you're nobody.
After all, most of the posts are "Check out my new XXXX" or "Look where we are on vacation" or these days "Back to school - check out my new outfits/computer/tablet/etc"
Venmo is simply an extension of that.
It's a very vain world out there.
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Basically, every single poseur fuckwit on the planet. Who wants to read it, basically every single poseur fuckwit on the planet. People, with no taste, people with no mind, people who are unabashedly selfish and greedy, people who scream continuously for attention, basically arse holes. So VENMO the arse hole network, join and you will be shat on for not paying enough for worthless poseur rubbish. VENMO we care about our customers, probably a good idea, nobody else in the right mind would ;D.
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You're posting to a comment thread about Venmo.
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You can follow him. Try not to let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
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Small Progress Through Settings (Score:1)
I wish that "private" would be the default payment setting upon first installing the app, but then they would lose what sets them apart from similar services.