What are the Delicious alternatives again?

[neotoma]

Because this does not make me happy:

Registered Users. When you register through the Site and submit your Personal Information to create a profile webpage, Delicious Users will see your “Screen Name” and first and last name (“Required Member Identifiers”). You can choose what other Personal Information you provide as part of your profile (“Other Member Information”) and in some cases you can choose whether to share that information publicly on the Site by making selections via the “Settings” section of your profile webpage. Providing Other Member Information is voluntary and should correlate with the degree of interaction you want to have with Delicious Users. We recommend that you guard your anonymity and sensitive information.

-- from the AVOS Privacy Policy, under Information Sharing and Disclosure

Do I want people to see my real name linked to my fannish bookmark collection? No. Does the new Delicious TOS imply that they will? Yes...


:P

Comments

[kaiz]

I have three separate delicious accounts for exactly this reason.

Pinboard is the alternative that I also use. It isn't free anymore though, but it's trivial to upload your delicious links.

[neotoma]

I don't think having separate accounts will help, since they'd all be linked to your real name, and your real name would be displayed to other members of AVOS-Delicious.

I think I might use the contact address to lodge a complaint -- I understand why the company might want my real name, but I do not understand why they think displaying it to all other members is a good or desirable thing.

If I can't restrict my info to keeping my real name private, I don't really want to use that service. The horrible privacy issues are what keeps me off Facebook, after all.

[kaiz]

I don't think having separate accounts will help, since they'd all be linked to your real name, and your real name would be displayed to other members of AVOS-Delicious.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but if you have two accounts, one that is "Bob Smith" and the other that is "asskicker101" and neither of the email addresses are shared, then how could your real name (e.g. Bob Smith) be connected to asskicker101?