On-line Protection for Urstyle Members
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@ollie that’s why I chimed in, dear. I know you do. Cheers.
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I know I'm late to this thread, but I just want to second some of the sentiments previously expressed - although I recognize & accept that everything on my profile will be public, I still would very much like to have a "private profile" or "followers only" profile option. In the past, people have literally gone through my likes/liked items for the purposes of accusing me of actions that they misinterpreted, which - I'm over it now and we've since worked out our differences, but I would have loved a followers only profile option back then. I remember being a bit unhealthily paranoid about my site activity when all of this was going on, and again although everything's fine now I think some of the paranoia still lingers subconsciously with different users who I've blocked
In general, it's annoying when blocked users can still see everything you post (& that you still want to show up on your followers' feed) by logging out or switching to an incognito tab
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@ayzrules I second exactly what you've said. And you said it perfectly. Though this may not provide as much security as we'd like, it would still feel better to know that only registered users (who can be tracked, for the most part, by UrStyle) are able to access our information. Never too late to revive a thread and voice your views! Thanks for that!
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@ollie anyone can save a set made on urstyle to their device.
Then can use it without persons consent. E. G. For a blog or whatever.
I've done this for the blog section on urstyle but always credited the maker. (used for outfit ideas).
There needs to be something in place to protect privacy.But if you can take anything while logged in, only privatisation for members not logged in, will not do much.
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@girlies-tip2-0 I totally agree with you but until the Urstyle Community rallies together to get things changed nothing will happen. Unfortunately I cannot see that happening. Please see excerpt from email below from head of Urstyle.
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@ollie there's not much they can even do to make things safer.
What do you expect the urstyle team to do?If they fail to keep up to date with social media, how on earth are you expecting them to do something super complicated. It would take some complex coding to make the site safer.
If you don't want your stuff stolen or information leaked, then don't post it.
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@girlies-tip2-0 You were the one that stated "There needs to be something in place to protect privacy" in your previous post and then you do a back flip. I just would like to say if facebook can give a profile a certain amount of privacy, so can any other decent programmer, at the end of the day Urstyle would not make any money and that my dear is what it is all about!
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@ollie yes something needs to be done about privacy. But, nobody is stating what exactly.
Its not an easy thing. There's no magic button to click on to get privacy.
Facebook can do this because they employ a huge team and some of which are experts in data protection. Urstyle however only is run by a few people so, it's not easy for them to implement.In the ideal world they would put more privacy settings in place. Its marvelous what they've achieved so far with limited help. I'm not saying I don't want more privacy, I'm saying it's unachievable with the resources they have. Plus probably expensive to implement.
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I've noticed in the last month that "not secure" is showing up more often and refreshing the page doesn't always make it go away. I'm having to log out and sign in again or just not use this site at all for a day or two. I asked @admin about this some time ago and was told that the site is secure??? Many users don't pay attention and may not be aware that their info can be seen by anybody and others with motives to do harm. I would advise anyone to check to make sure your info is not showing up on the dark web. Any reputable business should have preventive measures to protect their clients and users privacy.
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@idetached its caused by some images (mostly on the community pages) which are loaded via http instead of https. That’s all, you can’t lose anything or no one can hack anything here. This images will be fixed (forced to load via https) in the next releases
