{"id":249,"date":"2006-07-26T15:57:54","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T14:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/archives\/2006\/07\/26\/youtube-is-a-spam-machine\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T21:39:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T19:39:18","slug":"youtube-is-a-spam-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/26\/youtube-is-a-spam-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube is a spam machine!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I was trying to import some contacts from <a href=\"http:\/\/gmail.com\">Gmail<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\">YouTube<\/a>. After going through a <a href=\"http:\/\/plaxo.com\">Plaxo<\/a> dialog to select all my contacts, I assumed the next step would be to see who of those contacts were on YouTube. I thought wrong, in stead the service has e-mailed every address I imported (almost 200) an invitation to connect with me <strong>without my explicit consent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-icon\" id=\"image250\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/youtube%20logo.png\" alt=\"YouTube logo\" \/>\n<p>Naturally, I\u2019m quite upset about the whole situation and have decided to at least offer my apologies for bothering anyone with this spam. <strong>If you&#8217;ve received a YouTube invitation from frog1980 and thought it was inappropriate, I&#8217;m very sorry to have unwontedly bothered you.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Also, I hope someone of YouTube reads this and will make it a point to reconsider the way importing contacts works. <strong>Spamming my friends without my consent is not a cool thing to do.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I was trying to import some contacts from Gmail to YouTube. After going through a Plaxo dialog to select all my contacts, I assumed the next step would be to see who of those contacts were on YouTube. I thought wrong, in stead the service has e-mailed every address I imported (almost 200) an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/26\/youtube-is-a-spam-machine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">YouTube is a spam machine!<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[195,1042,193,194,192,191],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-apologies","tag-elsewhere","tag-gmail","tag-plaxo","tag-spam","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}