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Particularly noteworthy findings:

HackerRank (the coding challenge/interview platform) allows viewing profiles even without logging in - While it doesn't show things you do for specific employers, still not something I realized the site was doing and could have ramifications if you use it to play around.

7Cups, the online therapy/talkspace site, allows viewing profiles even without logging in. Far more dangerous and worrisome than a lot of the other sites on here because of stigma around mental health; it's easy for me to imagine an employer or insurance salesman running a username through here and finding out that a candidate has been (likely) dealing with MH issues.

Tinder(!) lets allows viewing a user's public pictures despite not being logged in - seems like a not great privacy measure - not sure how resistant this is to crawlers and the like but a tad bit concerning.




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