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by vacri 3730 days ago
Nonsense. "View my complete profile" takes you to the G+ page, and directly underneath his name it says he works for canonical. So what if his personal blog doesn't disclaimer everything in it - the information was one click away. You're just looking for excuses, really.

This new HN where everyone is complaining of 'clickbait' titles and demanding disclaimers everywhere for things like personal blog posts... it's starting to get pretty tiresome.
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stephenr 3730 days ago
> Nonsense. "View my complete profile" takes you to the G+ page, and directly underneath his name it says he works for canonical. So what if his personal blog doesn't disclaimer everything in it - the information was one click away.

View my complete profile links to https://plus.google.com/106527694663794732344 which shows his name and the number of followers he has.

A further click on "About" in the header, shows that he is an employee of Canonical.

> You're just looking for excuses, really.

Actually I was looking for confirmation or denial of his previously unstated employment by Canonical, the company whose OS runs on the device he reviewed without making mention of his conflict of interest.

> This new HN where everyone is complaining of 'clickbait' titles and demanding disclaimers everywhere for things like personal blog posts... it's starting to get pretty tiresome.

This is nothing to do with HN. He posted a review of a product that his employer is directly related to, and made no mention of who he works for. Most people I know would consider it fishy to not make any mention at all of your involvement with a product you're reviewing.

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pilif 3730 days ago
just to clear up a misunderstanding between you and vacri you're responding to: Google seems to be in the process of yet another redesign of G+.

If you haven't yet enabled the new experience then the employer is stated quite prominently directly on that link. This is what vacri was referring to.

If you enable the new experience, then yes, you are right, you have to click one more time.

Yes. I'm splitting hairs here - this should probably have been on the blog-post front and center, but still. You two are not seeing the same content.

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dschep 3730 days ago
That depends on what version of G+ you're using, what he stated was true for me until I "upgraded" to the new G+.

http://imgur.com/a/5eqEf

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