Privacy, anyone?

I don’t have the Yelp app installed and I recommend that nobody else install it either. For the avid Yelp users, I have to ask: do you not know about Yelp’s abysmal privacy record, or just don’t care? I cannot conceive of using an app that quietly collects and sells my data even when I explicitly told it not to. It shows complete lack of respect. How do you reconcile it?

Also look at how aggressively they try to funnel you from mobile web to their app. They’re so hungry for your data, they’ll sacrifice good UX and alienate some users to get it from others. Why tolerate this?

https://privacyreview.co/yelp

https://www.jezebel.com/a-little-known-yelp-privacy-setting-tells-businesses-yo-1793848010

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/yelp-settles-us-lawsuit-over-collecting-information-about-children