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uh, nothing that you post on anywhere outside buzz is propagated via buzz unless you ask buzz to propagate it, unless I missed something. also, buzz doesn't have access to this information unless you allow it to. it seemed that way to me when I used it.


Buzz automatically adds at least Reader and Picasa streams to your Buzz account.


But it's not too hard to remove them.

The way the Buzz settings found my contacts and added them was perfect, because I use my gmail account frequently with my friends -- I'm right in their ideal use case.

This person didn't -- either she could not have "Okayed" Buzz at all and there would be no issue, or once she saw that it added all the wrong people she could disable her sites and then not post to it.


  > But it's not too hard to remove them.
  > ...
  > ...  once she saw that it added all the wrong people
  > she could disable her sites and then not post to it.
But the point is that these require that you actively prevent Google from sharing your data, and that you realise it's doing so. That seems wrong. It shouldn't do things and then require me to notice that I didn't want them, and then work out how to disable them, and then trust that nothing went wrong in the interim period before I noticed.

EDIT: It's not me who down-voted you because I think your comment adds value. It tells us that people think these options are OK. I think you're wrong, but I think it's important that your opinion is seen as reasonable by some. Just not me.


"But it's not too hard" is just as easily written "It's not too obvious how to".




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