Related: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location (cellio.dreamwidth.org) | 819 points by throwaway_08932 6 days ago | 316 comments | <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39705788">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39705788</a>
It's more than OK to lie to corporations and give them a fake name and email address. I do it every day. I've found this is the only way to actually protect your privacy.
Hm. Went to see if I have some long-forgotten account—yep! Try to deactivate account… but it’s been so long since I logged in that they won’t let me do anything until I answer a bunch of stupid questions including <i>giving them my name</i>.<p>Sigh.<p>[edit] it said the name would be used for “verification” (?!?!) but a fake name worked long enough to let me disable the account, anyway.
Blind seems to be where tech people post reviews now. Non-tech people just use an alternative Google account and post the review on the company's page Google Maps reviews page.
This <a href="https://www.webworm.co/p/glassdoor" rel="nofollow">https://www.webworm.co/p/glassdoor</a> should have convinced anyone to go ahead and delete all their data and account from Glassdoor.
I went to go log in to see what I had left there, first off it wouldn't let me see the one review I had written, and second I'm now stuck in a "community" popup that won't let me proceed without employment info.
Here is the form to delete your data and more: <a href="https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US" rel="nofollow">https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US</a>
I don’t get it.<p>Is the point of this change to get real people to delete their reviews in favor of the “fake” reviews made by companies to suppress wages?
So… instead of moderating fake flowery reviews from the HR, doxing real honest negative reviews to scare away people from leaving those. Saves them a ton of money and headache on moderation, verification and also disgrunted customers(employers).
Buried: 141. Glassdoor is now adding real names to user profiles without consent (teamblind.com) 72 points by mry 1 hour ago | flag | hide | 33 comments
This is pretty plainly a terrible move, and might destroy them with lawsuits from the users who are able to show harm. (Though I think most of those harmed won't be able to prove it, nor even know for certain it's the reason for specific instances of harm to them.)<p>Interesting is that maybe prominent among those harmed by this underhanded privacy violation are... us techbros.<p>And it'll hit us where we feel it most, which is in our large salaries -- or lack of same, once we get fired for criticism speech on Glassdoor, and then HR hiring pipeline systems for some other jobs start denylisting our applications, for being a troublemaker who makes public negative comments about other employers on Glassdoor.<p>If experiencing this harm close to home -- to ourselves and friends/colleagues -- translates into conscientiousness when we're the ones making decisions about other people's privacy, then that's a silver lining.<p>More generally, you know how sometimes someone is harmed, and that person then goes on to harm others in the same way (as if inspired), but when a different person is harmed, they instead go on to defend others from harm (as if inspired)? It seems the latter person is better for society.