On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Gary Baribault <g...@baribault.net> wrote:
> The other difference is that Google tells you up front, LinkedIn > installed this out of the bleue without any real permissions. Of course > if this where an opt in thing, nobody would be opting in! Well, I never > did install their app and most certainly never will, and am telling all > of my friends about this as well. > Have you actually confirmed it's NOT opt-in? The screenshots on the Linked-in engineering blog referenced earlier certainly make it look like it is. http://engineering.linkedin.com/sites/default/files/intro_installer_0.png Of course, you could argue there's a difference between opting-in for "enhancing your email with Intro" and opting-in for "Please MITM all of my email and dynamic modify it", but that's really just semantics - it definitely appears to be opt-in. Scott
