As a member of the community, I want Profile Privacy Features, so I can be more private
When someone goes to gitcoin.co/profile/xxxxx and xxxxx does not exist in our system, their information is ingested from the Github API.
This was intended as an easy way for Gticoin users to create their profile, but it was not gated in the way that it should have been, and users are assuming when they go to gitcoin.co/profile/xxxxx that we've just indiscriminately scraped everyone's profiles in there (which is not true).
Gitcoin profiles are an alpha feature, and we are very sorry for the issues that this oversight has caused.
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Just a note for those of you coming from into this for the first time... We don't indiscriminately scrape Github data... Currently, when you hit https://gitcoin.co/profile/<github_user_handle> you will be show a Gitcoin profile card for the corresponding Github user... This does not automatically opt a user into Gitcoin. It's rendering data you already have made publicly available and is already accessible for Anyone on the internet.
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It's rendering data you already have made publicly available and is already accessible for Anyone on the internet.
That said, we can respect and understand why people are discomforted by the card being presented as Gitcoin branded when they have not explicitly signed up before.
I just put in the first fix for this https://github.com/gitcoinco/web/pull/1095
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That said, we can respect and understand why people are discomforted by the card being presented as Gitcoin branded when they have not explicitly signed up before.
I just put in the first fix for this https://github.com/gitcoinco/web/pull/1095