Am I missing something here? The article talks only about how user data was exposed, including the data on men being discussed in private messages. I don’t see any mention about any of what’s being discussed in these comments.
I get that there’s probably some talking behind backs or whatever going on in the app, but both criticism and defense of it seems completely irrelevant to the article in question.
If anything, the article goes to show just how wide of an impact the breach has. It not only is a violation of the users privacy (again), but also of personal information of non-users, including relationship history and sexual preferences of both the women on the app and the men they’re discussing.
I hope nobody will trust them with their data after this. Just leaving their databases open to the public is horrendous. Though I fully expect this kind of stuff to happen way more often over the next few years, with the rise of “vibe coding”.
I feel like this would be unconscionable if it was only employees with access to everything unencrypted. To just leave all this stuff open to the world is beyond the pale.
Truly disgusting app
Its a glorified misandrous burn book.
I feel like we just straight up cannot trust corporate apps with our data. Time to go back to signal groups like the rest of us, ig.
I use encrypted apps with some regularity, but for now, I’m not too concerned about inert conversation being plaintext.
Mister president, a second data breach has hit the shit-talking app
For all the spilling they’re doing, this is some of the most spot-on branding I’ve seen.
Paywalled.
Imagine if men made an app like this
An app where men protect each other from women who are emotionally and physically unsafe? I don’t see the problem.
You mean like Facebook originally was?
Imagine if men had an actual need for an app like this
Go on?
It would be a combination of InternetToughGuy, ThatHappened, and a bathroom stall?
It would be used for “no homo” meetups?
It would herald an era of men sharing their feelings?
It would be covered with porn and axel grease and sound like a Harley with a rough idle?
I have no idea where you are going with this.
“bathroom stall” would be a great name
You mean, like this very app?
Founder Sean Cook launched Tea after witnessing his mother’s terrifying experience with online dating
The ethical aspect of this would be made a far greater deal than this app faces.
Men mad that the app exists are part of the problem.
Non-men are still gonna talk shit and warn about ya, so die mad about it I guess.
Yeah, imagine men being angry that raging feminists had an app which allowed them to dox any man they want and ruin that man’s reputation (and life).
Them darneded men!
You can tell a lot about a person by whether they think the word “feminist” is a negative or a positive
Notice I didn’t specify “all feminists” here but you assumed I meant all.
Says more about that movement than you realize.
Feminism - good
App dedicated to talking shit about people - bad
Seems straightforward.
You’d think so but Jakob made it about Feminist Bad so at least some people are tripping up on it
Damn, shut up, clown.
How?
No, seriously, how is this ruining men’s lives?
Even if everything posted on this app was believed by everyone who used the app, so any man named on this app had their reputation ruined in the eyes of anyone who used it -
The users of this app are a tiny, tiny minority of women.
Nobody’s being arrested based on this app. Nobody’s being sent to jail based on this app. No one’s even being publicly humiliated based on this app, because the app isn’t public - the “tea” is only accessible to users.
The only consequence of being named on this app is that a handful of women now have a bad opinion of you.
How does this ruin anyone’s life?
When i was in highschool there was a popular “gossip” website. Even though i never heard about it, until the school urged parents to take their children off of it, it apparently was used for severe cyberbullying that devastated some students.
And I thank God every day that high school is not real life.
High school very much is real life for kids.
If you think bullying stops after high school, i have bad news for you.
The app isn’t exclusive, any person (women, for the most part) have the ability to join said app. Your definition of (not) ‘public’ is shaky at best. Even then, humiliating someone without their knowledge behind closed doors is not cool even in the best of circumstances.
