Last week Quora announced that it will start tracking who viewed your content by default. When I checked my account today, I found that my Settings -> View option was turned on. This meant that whatever I read would have been tracked by Quora and can be viewed by article contributors by default.
I can see how it could be interesting for writers to be able to see who's reading the posts. But it's definitely too much information to be shared with everyone. What I don't understand is the rationale of product designers who thought that exposing whatever articles that you read with everyone is okay thing to do. To be fair, Quora says that they will be exposing readership information selectively and as user you can opt out at any time. Still I don't understand how default setting of all posts that are read is acceptable.
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| I suggest you turn off View sharing option on Quora today. You can do that by opening Settings page and clicking 'No' on Views. |
I can see how it could be interesting for writers to be able to see who's reading the posts. But it's definitely too much information to be shared with everyone. What I don't understand is the rationale of product designers who thought that exposing whatever articles that you read with everyone is okay thing to do. To be fair, Quora says that they will be exposing readership information selectively and as user you can opt out at any time. Still I don't understand how default setting of all posts that are read is acceptable.
