Due to privacy concerns with Gravatar, we have decided to add an option in the settings for users to opt in or out of Gravatar. While Gravatar is a useful service, it enables them to be able to track your internet use. All users have now been opted out of Gravatar. If you’ve been using an avatar fr…

To be honest, I was never keen on the idea of using a third party site for user profile pictures. The security concerns of Gravatar’s site confirms my suspicions of why I felt it was a bad idea to begin with.

Note they’re referring to this profile: [image] WaniKani, a kanji learning application by Tofugu Learn Japanese kanji the effective way! Not the forums

Oh, I see. Guess I didn’t look closely enough at the screenshot. Yeah, the cat’s disappeared over there.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I’m a lot more conscious of these things nowadays so I went and deleted my gravatar account too. It’s not like it really does much for me anyway. I literally only started using it because of WaniKani.

[image] JenK: While Gravatar is a useful service, it enables them to be able to track your internet use. This sadly is the state of many internet companies. Disqus is another one similar to this, and we all know big daddy Google and Facebook are really trojan horses. :wink:

I don’t know why wk profile needs an avatar in the first place, as it’s not used in the forum and no one is seeing it :man_shrugging:

Wise decision IMHO. The question of the usefulness of the WaniKani avatar should be asked anyway. Do we really need it? Why not disable the avatar feature altogether (I’m talking about the WK app and not the forum)?

[image] KitsuFuwa: Do we really need it? Why not disable the avatar feature altogether (I’m talking about the WK app and not the forum)? Why though? I really like it! For the website, I use a more studious picture haha, while on the forums I use one that just makes me happy! I totally get al…

Why is there an avatar in the first place? How do you even find other users on the Wanikani website, other than through this community?

New Setting for Gravatar

WaniKani Announcements

Belthazar August 6, 2024, 11:33pm 2

Mine still seems to be using my Gravatar, uh, avatar.

Gravatar has been replaced with WaniKani avatars

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New Setting for Gravatar

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