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A better "industry best practice" for comparing address books (blog.textie.me)
2 points by masonlee 5249 days ago
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masonlee 5249 days ago
I wrote this post. We have opt-in, hash-based address book comparison working in a fairly popular consumer app, if anyone is interested in sharing experiences. I recommend it as the way to go.
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tejaswiy 5249 days ago
tl; dr: Send hashes of email addresses in the contact list instead of sending the addresses and compare.
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