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I have an expectation that posts I have made in non-public areas of the forum are not made public.
They're not.
Members area has never, is not, and will not be public.
DMs have never, are not, and will not be public.
Other very explicitly named areas that might exist have never, are not, and will not be public.Everything else on the forum has always been public... and the only thing that changed earlier this year is that I blocked AI scrapers and all bots from even accessing the public... but I've undone that, to allow archiving to occur, because archiving involves bots.
I don't know what you thought happened, but it's certainly not a change from anything that has existed since forever on the site. The only thing is undoing a block only recently put in place to stop bots. If you posted a year ago and it wasn't in an explicitly private forum... then it was already public.
I just logged out and the private areas remain private, the public areas remain public.
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It's more than 'disappointing'.
I have an expectation that posts I have made in non-public areas of the forum are not made public.
The privacy policy makes it clear posts are considered personal information:
and then describes where they will be made available:
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Edit follows:
It then goes on to say:
But there have been no updates, more recently than one 10 years ago, as far as I can see.
I'm now spending part of Christmas Day removing information about me that I never intended to be public. It's already been made public, of course, and may well have been compiled into archives.