We have just received a letter from "Nextdoor" supposedly a website to link neighbours together. Ours has a code etc.
I know most will realise, (in which case apologies for teaching you all to suck eggs) but in case you don't.....
Don't sign up, it is a marketing company which is harvesting your personal information which is verified as linked to an address ( the letter has a unique code which has been posted to your house), which will then be attached to your e-mail address which you will have to verify by clicking a link which will be sent to you. I am pretty sure it will then ask loads of other personal information during the sign up process. All very valuable to a marketing company.
Welcome to a new load of junk mail, postal mail as you will be adding yourself to god knows how many mailing lists and spam lists..
Check the trustpilot reviews https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/nextdoor.co.uk
I've just read the Trustpilot reviews and want to leave Nextdoor. I don't want my private data scammed out there. I can't seem to work out how to leave. Can anyone help, please?
What a perfect scheme to get people to provide their personal information that could be used against them or for profit! I think information boards like this where you can comment about local issues anonymously is very important.
Did you know that posts made to the website Nextdoor are available only to other Nextdoor members living in the same neighborhood? In contrast, I'm guessing the personal information is held on database somewhere in San Francisco or the EU. How does that help anyone in the villages connect to the outside world? This Message Board, that's been running successfully for years, seems to attract interest from all the villages, all over Norfolk, nationally and internationally.
Thanks for telling me about this. If there were communities that actually talked to each other, rather can creating communities with just masses of houses for the purposes of commuting we wouldn't need sites like nextdoor where people only talk amongst themselves in a bubble using the internet.
Did you know that posts made to the website Nextdoor are available only to other Nextdoor members living in the same neighborhood? In contrast, I'm guessing the personal information is held on database somewhere in San Francisco or the EU. How does that help anyone in the villages connect to the outside world? This Message Board, that's been running successfully for years, seems to attract interest from all the villages, all over Norfolk, nationally and internationally.
Just to be clear. The Next-door site collects your personal information by asking you for it, which you willingly give, and then sells it, or worse, uses it against you. it has a verified postal address to cross reference with your full name, e-mail address, telephone number and what ever else you give it as part of the 'sign up' process. this is pretty valuable information.
Not to worry you, but the information that is requested in that sign up process ( name, date of birth, Full address, perhaps a photo, name of pet etc.) is exactly the information which is required to access a bank account, or change your phone account details, or apply for credit in your name. It is a process called Social engineering. And if you have signed up, you have given it all because they sent you a letter asking for it. it didn't even have your name at the top, just called you neighbour.
The fact it allows different communities to communicate with each other is completely irrelevant. It is the information which is harvested as part of the sign up they are interested in.
In a very similar manner to that of those Facebook pages where it asks you to comment on the name of your first dog (which is a common password people use), first car (same) , or how many squares can you count or those stupid things which apparently 93% of the population is too stupid to work out a simple mathematical counting exercise where people simply cannot help posting the answer to prove how clever they are and in the process are sharing all their Facebook personal information with the website owner (as soon as you respond, facebook grants access to your profile even if you are not friends with them). This is exactly how Cambridge analytica got so much data to influence various elections.
Sites like that are different from this (spooner row) website, in that you are not asked to provide personal information to sign up.If you want to unsubscribe, it is pretty difficult for you to un-give your personal information. Easier to not give it in the first place.
Just try to be more careful with your personal information.
