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BlackBerry 10 Can BBM Anything You're Watching, Even Porn
redletterdave writes "The new BBM in BlackBerry 10 has the option to automatically share what music you're listening to as one's status update. As it turns out, this BBM feature in BlackBerry 10 can actually share anything you're listening to with your BBM network, including videos. Therefore, any videos viewed in the BlackBerry Z10 browser or media player will be displayed for all of one's BlackBerry contacts to see, even if you don't want your network to know you're watching certain videos."
The bigger WOW here is that this is even a story. The key phrase in the summary is: "HAS THE OPTION" as in it's an optional feature. You know. One that you can turn off or on. This is the same thing Netflix recently added, where it will post what you're watching if you turn the option on. Here's a novel idea, if you're watching porn on your blackberry, turn off sharing or never enable it to begin with.
Even by the standards of the usual ROT13ifying overlords of slashdot, I gotta say... uh..????
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There is no way you can't turn this off, and really, who watches porn on their phone? That just seems like a terrible life choice. Small screen, horrible data speeds, smudgy finger marks.
Blackberry Messenger. I had to google it.
Be seeing you...
Implying that this feature is on by default. Bad idea.
That would be a bad idea. Good thing that it's OFF by default.
The article and summary are ridiculous.
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It's off by default.
This is a non-story.
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The article is written in a way that implies the feature is turned on when you get the phone.
Which it is not.
I even double-checked on my wife's phone as she hadn't yet setup BBM. It was off.
You must explicitly turn that feature on.
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