In these sort of articles, I wonder why the author never considers benign intentions.
The conversation could have easily been
"Read receipts are a useful feature."
"Yeah. Let's add them"
And that was it. Lots of people are not privacy focused and don't think of this as a problem, so it would never occur that their seemingly benign feature could have bigger consequences.
It's pretty easy for people who care to "turn off read receipts" by disabling images or blocking it through proxy/vpn/whatever.
I personally don't like read receipts, so I will likely not use superhuman. I just don't view it as some major problem.
The conversation could have easily been
"Read receipts are a useful feature." "Yeah. Let's add them"
And that was it. Lots of people are not privacy focused and don't think of this as a problem, so it would never occur that their seemingly benign feature could have bigger consequences.
It's pretty easy for people who care to "turn off read receipts" by disabling images or blocking it through proxy/vpn/whatever.
I personally don't like read receipts, so I will likely not use superhuman. I just don't view it as some major problem.