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Action Item: No More Flicker!

No less than a week after I finally opened a flicker account, I have just deleted my account.

Flicker is owned by Yahoo who passively bottomed to the Justed Department by giving over personal data of its search engine users.

I encourage others to do the same. Lets show these assholes that taking it up the ass from Alberto Gundtzales will cost their company’s stock price big time in addition to the measley price of their souls burning in the hell of their choice.

Kudos to Google for not giving in to these fuckwads.

UPDATE: I’m also deleting my Yahoo 360 account in a few days.

By Madge

Lesbian with food allergies.

25 replies on “Action Item: No More Flicker!”

I agree with your decision. Not only am I deleting my account, but also writing Yahoo! as to why. Every (insignificant) bit counts.

They’re free so I’ll be using them as well as the Flock browser that does some very clever things with del.icio.us and blogger.
I do support Google’s stand on keeping confidential. I think this data is as useful as the intelligence coming out of Uzbekistan; “dross”.
How you getting on with OPML Madge?

I never liked Flickr because they don’t let you show really big pictures. I’ve been using Fotopic.net for a couple of years now, and I think it’s way better. Apart from enything else, even the free account lets you use your own domain in the URL. That way, you can move the whole site to a new host if the whole system goes bad. And the folks who run Fotopic are good people.

Forget corporations who are only out to get money, then turn around and give your information to the government. Switch to open source software.

Yahoo Messenger is gone…working on Yahoo Photos & Flicker. Also…don’t forget that del.icio.us is owned by Yahoo.

Not gonna do the delete part. Spent too many hours putting photos on flickr to suddenly delete it now. Will gladly recommend that others not use it and look into buzznet dot com. Also will send yahoo the letter. But deleting everything.. not going to rush into that.. too much energy spent….

I agree, it is a lot of work. But, I just deleted over 100 photo albums from Yahoo! Photos. 3 years woth of photos. But I agree, it is a lot of work.

Not gonna delete Flickr either, although i did delete my Yahoo 360 6 months ago ’cause they asked too many questions and their privacy policy sucks.

If the U.S. justice dept. wants search data let ’em have it. What are they gonna find out? That the MTA is being run by Al-Qaeda and have been printing special NYC subway maps with secret terrorist codes for years?

There was absolutely no private information in what was turned over though. Just an aggregate collection of search terms without ips or anything that could possibly identify anybody. Even one-off search terms weren’t in the data, so if you happened to search for your sister’s name or something similar, that wouldn’t be in there. It was just a more detailed version of the standard Zeitgeist/Buzz index that both Yahoo and Google provide which I have never seen anybody complain about – http://buzz.yahoo.com and http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist.html
The main difference was that along with the more detailed aggregate search terms, the list included the URLs that these search terms mapped to. Google’s main beef here is that revealing detailed information about this search term to URL mapping will give competitors a way to discern the size and breadth of their index. The pricacy angle was just a convenient PR stunt that has seemingly fooled a lot of people.

I still say it is wrong, if they wanted the information they could have got it themselves without having to ask Yahoo or the others to turn the information over. I refuse to use Yahoo & the others because WHAT ELSE will they be willing to turn over in the future.

Of course it’s wrong. It’s NONE OF THE GOVERNMENT’S BUSINESS! NONE! Whether or not we can coceive of the evil the government can do with the data is entirely irrelevant. It does not belong to the government any more than your scrotum does.

shit your quitting delicious too? everyone needs to breathe for a second.. these moves are extremely small and bear no political or economic consequences on the government or those companies.
Naturally I have a great deal of respect to anyone who takes an initiative and starts a movement.. but.. this is too small potatos for me.
If you do want an alternative to delicious which is such a great tool, there is Doc Searls’ old favorite FURL http://www.furl.net/

I agree with Mark and glad he said it. I am happy to see so many people willing to take a stand regarding this privacy issue, but will it make the change we need? At least in spirit it is motivating people to make a small stance, but it won’t impact the larger issue. To me, boycotting Yahoo is up there with the vegans who do so to stop the mistreatment of animals.

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