TIL Primal stores every advanced search you make, associated with your public key.
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Ouch...
Wait what
It is quite possible that they are required to do this by law, some regulation, or an unwritten demand from the authorities, but it is also possible that the option to disable the storage of such data will be implemented. Proton has added this option for themselves.
Huge bet
That's a very lame excuse.
What's this all about?
Stop using primal.
Ew.
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Yes, why? @paul keating
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Gross #nostr
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Is every gd thing I do in life tracked?!
Paul isn’t a dev
He still works alongside them. I doubt he's oblivious to this matter.
Please explain🤔
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LOL
FYI, I think you'll love this
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Yarny, big news.
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For your safety 😛😛
You can cache results without assosiating them to public keys. What is even the point of making the connection between a search and the searcher?
Can you provide the source code so others can possibly work on submitting a PR to solve whatever issue they are doing in a more privacy conscious way?
Check my other 2 posts
Oh, yeah. There's also this.
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primal is so annoying to use with nos2x
basically forces you to approve all
So does every relay.
I've been looking through their GH trying to figure out how their trending algo works and it turns out that it's not documented anywhere. I then sent GPT to find me answers, with no result. Since you're smarter than I am, enlighten me.
but at least Primal users can nos use Blossom, something everyone else has been using for at least a year 😆
Damus still isn't 😔
tracking
oh? I didn't know. I don't own any device not compatible with my way of life.
I believe only Damus and Nostur are the last two major iOS clients still only using NIP-96/98 and I think all Android clients now include blossom
Nope.
And monetized. You forgot monetized.
Menos mal que hay personas que saben leer y leen el codigo.
Gracias @semisol 👍🚨
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Your feeble mind will never understand
You mean “at least Primal has users”?
I hope we see an opt out option. Never thought I'd see a tracking by a Nostr app. 🤨
Why do this?
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Getting real tired of them not responding to bullshit like this.
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FYI, if you do manage to get him on nostr, I would advise telling him to stay away from Primal. Just saying.
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How condescending of you. Hop off your ivory tower for a second and spend some time with us commoners.
If you spend your time looking at source code just to find reasons to be mad, you are a very boring person and not fun to be around. You can’t be mad at me for not wanting to engage with someone so boring.
He's not looking for reasons to be mad. If you weren't looking at this thread through a purely subjective lens, then you would see that. How does that make him boring😏?
This is why I can't stand the VC bro influencer mentality in nostr dev. It is legacy fiat thinking. I hate it.
No. Primal has plebs with a massively interoperable identity.
They will opt out of being tracked and kycd.
Douchecanoe.
Condescension like this does not fit in here since plebs can literally take their identities and go anywhere. Your ignorant arrogance only highlights your lack if understanding.
Uh, no. This is part of the "don't trust, verify" process.
You dingledorks are doing stuff that's completely anathema to nostr. It only highlights your fear and lack of creativity.
That criticism is also rich coming from a group that can't get basic consistency into a software project.
What a tone-deaf bafoon.
Absolutely false.
Nostr is an open protocol, there is a different reason why all of you hate on Primal, and interestingly for the same reason Primal team never hated on your projects.
This is your response to storing all user searches and tying them to pubkeys? Wow.
People should and rightfully call out any nostr dev doing this.
Yes. You're exactly correct.
We are rightly criticizing a stellar oversight or an outright lie.
You have can't bother criticizing projects that are both better built and more functional by people who are above moral reproach even if we are prickly.
Step off your soap box until the current issue is addressed. Not doing that only gives the ones criticizing you more fuel.
Please continue if you feel you must. I'm exceptionally happy for this to continue. 😁😎❤️🔥🤭
Do you hate your users? Are you only working on nostr because you are being paid vc money? This avatar is funny to you?
Your attempts to stir up drama are pathetic, I’m not a primal spokesperson and I’m also on vacation. If you want an official primal response you will have to look elsewhere.
Was this you? Because this creepy Primal bot showed up only a few minutes after i was done talking to you.
Shortly after I'm done talking shit about #Primal, a creepy Primal bot shows up saying this crap. Very spooky!🤣🤷 #nostr
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And tell him to put a shirt on
This avatar is funny to you?
I don’t think about you dude. I have time because I’m waiting for my plane, going on a vacation in a few hours, we just released a big update and I deserve to chill a bit. You should enjoy life more.
Typical evasion tactics
My life is fine. You keep evading our questions, though.
oh. semi discovered it. gotchu.
Your life is obviously boring if you have nothing better to do
You really love tossing around the word boring. What's funny is that you don't realize how boring you and your precious Primal is. And I've experienced more than enough excitement in my 45 years of being alive. When my kids grow up, I'll get back to being fun. Plenty of time for that. So... are you going to answer all of our questions or not? Because you're clearly trying to evade.
As I said I’m not a primal spokesperson and can’t give an official response, I can only say my opinion. Also I am more than happy to answer good faith questions and have answered many questions today, but if you are coming at me in bad faith, I will only make fun of you.
Isn't there a Nostr blog or GitHub page that explains how the algo works? I know that @miljan posted about this and discussed it at length a year ago.
@paul keating is sexy AF and doesn't need to wear a shirt. Soon his daughter will be born so that he can transition into a dadbod like myself. 🫂🥹
It did make me laugh 😂😂😂 I appreciate humor in times of frustration to help break the tension.
I just see Will's beautiful head of hair and shed a tear 🥹
And I'm happy for him and his wife. But, it's true, the Primal team only seems to hear what they want to hear.
I respect it. I wouldn’t wear a shirt either if I lived where he does
Congratulations on the release brother. It's a good one. 🫂🤙🏻💜
It's so irritating!🤣🤷
I did explain it in DMs but here you go:
- All interactions from the last n hours are taken by “trusted” users (top 50k by followed, not exactly but mostly similar)
- The most interacted ones are added up
- Except for the GM feeds, any that contains “gm” (including as part of another word or link) is removed
- Public keys blocked from trending are removed
- The result is returned
So you're saying I gotta change my good morning message after 2.5 years? Got it.
do you speak for primal? because you're saying things that conflict with your boss
😂🫂
how about you shut up
I don’t speak for Primal, all expressed opinions are purely my own.
We need a NIP for clients to voluntarily disclose their data handling … and a network of users and devs that incentivizes them to use it.
Primal is just the beginning. There will be more … lots more.
Success for Nostr depends on real world businesses integrating with the protocol. WE ALL KNOW that end user sovereignty is good for business (don’t we?) AND YET the dominant paradigm of black box apps will not go away without some hand holding.
We SHOULD be building a protocol and libraries that make it easy for businesses to OFF-LOAD more and more of their data to Nostr … but we SHOULD NOT chastise business for simply having black boxes and trying to make money.
Black boxes are the old business model. Freedom tech is the new… but transitions are complicated.
Periodic reminder that your relays see absolutely EVERYTHING you do on Nostr. Regardless of which Client you use. They literally see the app downloading zaps, replies, and reactions when you scroll your posts in real time.
So... MAKE SURE TO KNOW WHO THEY ARE and that you TRUST THEM with that information.
Nostr is just like a browser. The server has to know what you want to see to send it to you, and that gives them the power to track you and see what you are asking for. There is no way around it.
I can't stress this enough.
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you are a symbol of everything wrong with Silicon Valley and why it needs to be abandoned.
thank you 🙂
we will use you as an example of why privacy, and open protocols are so important.
Yes.
And?
Primal's ToS is a lie, then. I'm more aware of how nostr works than most. It is things like this that really highlights how little even devs think about nostr and it's implications
Tribal wars begin. We've made it
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Hahahah gracias we’ll see about that dad bod😂🫂
Wtf is blossom
BOOBSTR
From what I've heard about primal, they don't give a shit about your privacy. Aren't they the client that KYC's you during onboarding?
My feeble mind?
Telle that it isn't rigged or GFY
Why would I know or care, I work on the iOS app. Learn to take a joke.
I mean Primal is the only nostr client which doesn't only phantom ban player, attempts to monetarise on an open protocol while using centralised methods to lock-in (and apparently track) it's users. Promotes itself as a nostr client with a KYC 3-rd party wallet plugged in. A client that works outside of nostr standards which is basically over a year behind on most nostr stuff.
That's the client I'm referencing. You need to get your nose out of that cocaine bag you arrogant twat.
It's not documented anywhere including the GH
Nice deflection. You were not joking🙄. You're just unable to admit that you have no valid answer.
That's what people who don't want to answer the difficult questions do. Like, why is your client rigged kinda questions. And people don't look at source code because they're bored. They look at source code to figure out how censorship, tracking and co work.
this is why we should open source everything
You misunstood the context of the OP. Relays can indeed see everything you do and some do collect certain info. But what primal is doing is collecting users search info which they can sell to their VC masters and possibly create a personalized list of search and trend suggestions, which is virtually identical to what platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube do.
Settings in nos2x. You can fine tune all approvals. Turn them all off or only leave some on.
Yep, for sure. A few things are certain though, imo. Primal devs are trying to make it appear as if other non-primal devs are bullying them (cowardly🙄), they use deceptive tactics to create a walled garden of misinformation across a decentralized freedom protocol in order to create the false narrative that primal and it's relays are the most used nostr client, they don't care for user privacy (and lie about it), they collect data (which they also lie about), and they're an increasingly narcissistic bunch due to egregious amounts of VC funding. In short, they believe that their dicks are the biggest🙄.
boom!
No #gmprotocol fucking rekt. That's like half my engagement.
I'll give it read. Thanks🫡!
Also, you should consider refraining from using primal.
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Wow I must say the last thing I expected of mr.NiceguyGMandhelpeveryone is cheering on a shithead behavior even if it’s your teammate..
Then read through this thread.
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Because no one knew about this until yesterday! You never gave anyone a heads up!
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All developers are my teammates. I thought I did well discussing both sides earlier and elsewhere in the thread.
Annoying
Why can't they just chill with all thr garbage they want me to sign. I only want to sign notes. That's it @primal
As opposed to users apparently 😂
You're right! 🙏🏻
They're not important. Don't feed their overinflated egos.
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Not in free countries.
As a @primal user I want to know every element that compromises privacy and user control of their data (storage, tracking, and persistence) on both the application and the relay. And I’d like to see it in a public list or maybe a mirrored repo with specific notes against the offending code in a constructive way that makes us all smarter. Best in a place where discussion can happen, so that we as users can guide development where appropriate and possible. This kind of dialogue is important to have early and often. Code debt could be building up on undesired functionality, further cementing it. Let’s air some laundry and understand the what and why of it.
Daaayumm. Get 'em!
How/why would a public key get blocked from trending?
up to them. I am not sure if the trending filter specifically is shown (only the spam filter is AFAIK)
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Use relays?