Listen, I understand that people believe I exist in an endless state of incandescent rage, but they are going to have to invent new words for how angry I am about Glassdoor adding real names without users' consent.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/glassdoor-adding-users-real-names-job-info-to-profiles-without-consent/

Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent

Anonymous review site Glassdoor now consults public sources to identify users.

Ars Technica
@evacide not only that but to go in and delete your review I was forced to add at least one job history, write one job review, and enter my salary history for at least one job BEFORE they would let me delete my review and account. Truly horrible

@tstruthers @evacide Yes, I had to go in, navigate a questionnaire flow I could not opt out of, with fields like job title, preferred location, opt out of job offers, then was dumped in a “community”.

Settings (and Profile? view reviews, delete): Delete account. Forced to log in AGAIN to delete my account.

It claims that deleting account removes your reviews, but I deleted my mandatory review (ARGH) manually before deleting, because FTS.

Terrible UX the whole time.

@tstruthers @evacide Glassdoor sent me automated mail “Oops!” saying there is something wrong with the review I submitted and that I have to take action or they won’t post it. This would be about the review I deleted before closing my account.

I have always hated Glassdoor for its coercive review gathering (which thus skews all the data they have to offer). They have a time horizon on reviews that forces people to invent data to add in order to avoid bad employers.