Plaxo release email addresses
June 18th, 2008 by Dave. 20 Comments »Update: John McCrea, VP of Marketing at Plaxo commented- there was a bug. They’ve responded quickly and the bug has been fixed & deployed. I can’t confirm this, but it’s good to hear. Well done to John & team.
Plaxo (recently acquired by Comcast) you might remember for their old spammy habits. Since their launch of Pulse however the reviews have been more positive- can you get worse reviews then being classed as spammers?
Today I was looking through my Google Analytics & noticed what I only hope is a mistake. I received a visitor with this referrer:
/?src=PulseWeeklyDigestV2&et=20&requiredUser=77309776589
&loginEmail=kram@kramng.co.uk&el=en_gb&forceSignin=1&
(email address edited as not to republish)
… I know exactly who that visitor was as Plaxo released his email address. Yes, released his email address. RELEASED HIS EMAIL ADDRESS.
If this isn’t a one-off and this code runs in production they are effectively releasing email addresses for anyone who clicks on links in their emails from web clients. Possibly all their emails, or maybe just their “PulseWeeklyDigestV2″, I can’t check as I don’t use Plaxo. Right now I’m glad!