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Buzz had some horrible privacy problems and was too smart for its own good if I remember correctly.


The Buzz privacy problem were almost exclusively at launch, the way they seeded the network.

Not sure what "too smart for its own good" means exactly. It was a pretty vanilla feed, with no fancy features.


> Not sure what "too smart for its own good" means exactly. It was a pretty vanilla feed, with no fancy features.

It was a reference to how they seeded the network by inferring contacts.




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