Thanks for the links and your transparency. I will read up. Just to clarify - the reason I see this as relevant is because I'm a regular DDG user and put a lot of trust in your privacy claims (no logging of queries, etc).
Yup, I understand. If you're ever in Philadelphia, feel free to stop by and I can show you no logging in real time. As for NDB, the biggest points from my perspective are that:
--you could opt-out from emails or remove yourself from the database at any time.
--you could see a detailed explanation of how every aspect of the site worked before signing up, on a page I spent countless hours writing and tweaking.
--similarly, there was a vast support system that answered almost any faq.
--you could see the whole database on our static site before signing up.
I'm intrigued by the issues raised by selling a company which has personal data like in the case of NDB.
When you sold NDB did you have any concerns about how the new owners would treat members and their data? Knowing what has happened since (which--for some people at least--seems to be controversial) the sale would you do anything differently if you could?
A few years ago I had a company approach me to sell a small site I was running but I was never quite convinced they weren't just spammers/scammers wanting a customer list and felt like I owed my users more than that.
Definitely. The buyers were a public company who had recently bought classmates.com, were changing out the management, and had wanted to make it into a better site so-to-speak. I haven't substantiated any of the post claims, so I can't really speak to what happened. However, I would say that I think it really makes a difference if the team is going to stay or not.
