150 upvotes, 4 direct replies (showing 4)
View submission: Announcing Online Presence Indicators
If you do not want to display your status indicator, you can opt-out of this feature by clicking into your profile (on the redesign or in-app) and toggling off “Online.” Your new online status will be “Hiding.” See the below examples for how this works on both desktop and in-app:
No, no, no. Holy hyperfuck no.
This bullshit should be **opt-in**, not opt-out.
Comment by totaljunkrat at 03/03/2021 at 22:06 UTC
13 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I'm SO USED to clicking username -> My Stuff -> Profile
and now I always accidentally click on the active status bullshit instead.
Comment by owlmob at 04/03/2021 at 11:01 UTC
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
it's not opt-out either. choosing one of two statuses isn't opting out, opting out would be to disable the feature completely
Comment by codenpeg at 04/03/2021 at 16:31 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Oh yeah, should have defaulted to off. Or, even better, just not include this feature.
Comment by tulsua at 08/03/2021 at 01:08 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Strongly agreed. Hadn’t initially seen the change log for this being added and am pretty uncomfortable with it defaulting to on (+ what other privacy violations will they add in the future?)