This pretty much sums up primal devs. They will record all of your searches tied to your pubkey, when you call them out on this they laugh at you and claim you are stirring up drama. They will even set an āNROā profile picture to laugh at you some more. No longer going to recommend primal to anyone. It seems they couldnāt care less about your privacy.
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This is hilarious timing for this primal drama. They finally get signer support and acted a fool so I'm going to continue my boycott.
No need to use apps that don't respect me when there are plenty of other options.
Primal has always been SUS. š©
I doubt they're doing it to be nefarious. It's probably used to see what their users want or how they're using the app to help find tune the experience. For example, if most users are searching for images, then maybe Primal implements an image feed.
Thats fine, then they need to update this
That's a fair point. They may not collect data in the traditional sense, but this does seem to be the opposite of what they're advertising in the app store.
Even if it's non-mefarious telemetry, it should be optional and off by default.
I would agree there. Giving users a choice to opt out of these types of tracking would be optimal. Maybe we can ask them for this?
If they answer
And the fact that this was never mentioned to begin with seems like another red flag.
This is actually the norm in the tech startup space. I think their team is from miljanās previous product they sold to microsoft. I doubt they care about user privacy or think about it (i mean i think thats clear)
I'm aware. And I agree with you on everything in regards to this matter. I was just hoping to never have to witness this kind of deceptive corporate behavior coming from a team who advertises their PLATFORM as one that doesn't collect data over a freedom protocol.
this is what ive said from the beginning.
Primal has a Silicon Valley douchebag ābroā culture problem.
The integrity of projects with this root culture always, ALWAYS, falls apart.
Read here
They actually are not using the search data, and there is no reason for them to collect it that detailed considering the feature has been stable.
I am assuming good faith but it is becoming hard as they try to deflect any questions or blame.
Iām sure you have been recommending Primal this whole time, given that Damus onboarding scares users away from Nostr
4 default relays, only following Damus account, no feed right from the start.
Tough to recommend Damusā¦
Damus was my first Nostr experience. Could not have been easier.
I bounce between primal and Damus (writing from primal right now) but Iāve always preferred Damus. Now I might just ditch primal altogether
It's a web site/service: everything is tracked by default. You can somewhat mitigate things, but it's more, not less work
Wow! Good to know.
How did you find out? Is there more evidence on this?
