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Youtube providing email to spammers ?
Filed in archive Newsdesk 2.0 by S.M. Schrama on August 16, 2006
Youtube providing email to spammers ?
BoingBoing reports on hidden functionality in the sharing capabilities of Youtube that will send your email adress to a company that possibly makes it available to spammers.
Clicking on the button to enable the code revealed that the JavaScript was hosted at -- gasp -- Plaxo (no linkee for them), the company that enlists its users to send spamalicious address book related emails.
When asked, Plaxo says it is not the case :
"no e-mails are being "unwittingly added to our databases, YouTube is using our Address Book Access Widget so their users can easily pick people from their Hotmail/gmail/outlook/etc address books to send video links to."
techcrunch's Michael Arrington reported about Plaxo's apologies in March this year for their actions resulting in big piles of email to subscribers. I wonder where this is going....Remarkable enough Youtube is down at the moment : We're currently putting out some new features, sweeping out the cobwebs and zapping a few gremlins. Yeah, removing some scripts ??

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