@fedichive Aside from the sass, good job on putting this out.
The reason, I think, this blew up is because a lot of us came here to get away from the mass collection of data and when someone performs the exact action that made a lot of us leave the other social medias, it's an affront to our efforts. And that can be taken quite personally by some.
That being said, anyone who thinks any of this is private is mistaken.
I hope you begin to take a whitelist approach at some point though.