@balze

Possible Blaze W? I think everyone on wasteof will both trust and respect you much more if you they see you are willing to put in the time and effort to improve your platform's security, privacy, design, and function.

Blaze's creator/moderators also don't have a way to see DMs sent in groups making moderation a concern, especially on a social media with mostly minors.

For example, someone could send vile stuff to people privately and moderators couldn’t do anything about it. :/

@radi8 also created a pihole adlist to block blaze’s ip loggers and analytics:

https://cdn.radi8.dev/pihole/blaze.txt

wasteof user @joshatticus created a userscript which blocked tracking requests and ip grabbers on Blaze which is accessible at:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/486535-fixupbalze/code

otherwise, you can use the following ublock origin filters if you want added privacy:

# IP tracking/blocking
ipify.org
synctrack.io
geojs.io

# Wix analytics
POST: frog.wix.com
*wix-engage-visitors*
panorama.wixapps.net

Blaze also falsely claimed that messages sent on their platform were end-to-end encrypted. (which was debunked by @tnix)

Blaze’s owner recommended that due to potential concerns regarding tracking by Wix (which was beyond his control), users should use a fake name and email and access the site using VPN, which is a pretty worrying sign.

we suggest not giving most of your info, get an email alias, use a VPN, and not giving out your real name, phone number, company you work with, etc.

~ @/blaze on wasteof.money

The creator of Blaze is also a former Meower member (who knew the owner of Meower irl) and was banned from the platform for harassing the owner

blaze also had no support email and their official support page was an ai chatbot

blaze’s privacy policy stated that they collected a concerning amount of user data, including:

your employer, school address, home address, ip address, credit card number, debit card number, bank account details, social security number, full name, mother's name, father's name, and browser version.

they claim they generated their (old?) logo using AI but it was exactly the same as two separate other companies’ logos that were created before theirs.

source: https://wasteof.money/posts/65c543b2a5f6cd04e01412f5

blaze uses/used ai to respond to concerns people brought up with them

his account was created solely for the purpose of summarizing some of the valid criticisms and concerns that wasteof users have raised with the platform, especially as blaze has deleted many of their previous responses and comments .

we don’t condone spamming, hacking, or hating on blaze or its creators.

if you want to create an account and avoid being tracked, use the following ublock origin filters (the IP tracking is entirely client-side):

# IP tracking/blocking
ipify.org
synctrack.io
geojs.io

# Wix analytics
POST: frog.wix.com
*wix-engage-visitors*
panorama.wixapps.net

Out-of-context blaze screenshot that's kinda funny: