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View submission: Announcing Online Presence Indicators
No matter how many times you say this, that is NOT opting out. Making it so I have a week to change my status to: "Hiding" (Great name by the way, automatically has a negative connotation to it) still has me in the pool of presence status for everyone. This is not a good feature at all.
This makes it so much easier to harass people. To watch people's browsing habits. To annoy mods. If I can't make it that you can't even see a dot next to my name ever, I'm still opt-ed IN.
If this is to help small communities, they can all opt-in to make their small community better, not FORCE every user to hide if they don't want to show their status.
And finally, **this should be on r/announcements.** I only found this post because I didnt know what that random green dot was that said online when I moused over it and searched for it on r/blog and /r/announcements and tried /r/changelog as a last effort.
Comment by ALoneTennoOperative at 03/03/2021 at 21:39 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
To watch people's browsing habits.
Good point.
How long before people start scraping that data to track users, now that it's a public-facing signal light?