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1. ammon+3A[view] [source] 2022-06-16 22:34:43
>>terafl+(OP)
I’m the CEO of Triplebyte. I just looked into this, and we are not automatically making anyone's profile public without their consent. OP, it looks like you had set your profile to be visible some time ago (I can provide details via email but won’t here for privacy purposes), and just hadn’t gotten a message until now. The support response you received was incorrect; you weren’t affected by any recent changes to the site.

Since there wasn’t anything broken on our end, there shouldn’t be anyone else impacted by this. But as part of making sure that OP wasn’t visible by mistake, I had my team double-checked to make sure our previous fix from last year was properly retroactive. It was.

More generally, I don't think that tricking anyone is a viable way for us to run a business. We’re trying to create a marketplace that can open opportunities for engineers who wouldn’t otherwise have them, and we need the trust of engineers in order to do that.

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2. dexter+2D[view] [source] 2022-06-16 22:54:22
>>ammon+3A
So why have I gotten 5 emails from your system in the last 24 hours when I had forgotten you existed and haven't logged into my account in at least 18 months?
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