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by sneak 2838 days ago
Path was not better. They got busted repeatedly playing fast and loose with user privacy, and iirc their bad behavior was the proximate cause of Apple adding contacts permissions to iOS. Good riddance to these jerks.

https://www.theverge.com/2012/2/7/2782947/path-ios-app-user-...

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Yeah, my memory of Path is that they spammed all my contacts in the first week of having it installed and then I uninstalled it and never went near it again.
That's exactly how long it stayed installed on my phone and those of my friends who I helped originally sign up for it.

I don't think they ever recovered from that incident. https://www.theverge.com/2012/2/7/2782947/path-ios-app-user-...

I can't believe they somehow trotted along for another six years. Never seen anybody use it since.

Hard to find a mobile app these days that doesn't demand contact access, try using WhatsApp without providing it and it's a rough ride, I'm super reluctant to upload mine but that one was basically unusable without doing so.

How times change.

That’s very true. Though it wasn’t the contacts upload on its own so much. It was that they were uploaded in the background without permission or notification and your contacts were spammed without your permission.
Yes, the CEO was an ex-facebook d-bag. Playing fast and loose with user privacy is the name of the game in "growth hacking".