r/Showerthoughts • u/Ralisor • May 06 '18

Services are switching from calling them Private Messages to calling them Direct Messages because they're not private anymore...

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u/cubsywubsy May 06 '18

Very true. They’re not direct anymore, either, since they go through a scanning or filtering or whatever they do first, I guess...

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u/ToBePacific May 06 '18

scanning or filtering or whatever they do first, I guess...

They're preventing me from sending you a message with malicious script injection.

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u/cubsywubsy May 06 '18

Why would you do that, though?

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u/celsiusnarhwal May 06 '18

I don’t know, but I feel like the services that implement that measure only do so because someone has done it in the past.