Dear Email Industry, We’ve Got a GDPR Problem
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Dear Email Industry, We’ve Got a GDPR Problem
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Re: Dear Email Industry, We’ve Got a GDPR Problem
#2Off-topic: I absolutely love the design choices made by the author of this site. It's the basic browser stylesheet with some nice refinements. A real triumph of minimalism and incredibly readable.
Re: Dear Email Industry, We’ve Got a GDPR Problem
#3There is the Email Industry - that is the problem.
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#4GDPR is europe's problem, not of the entire "email industry"
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#5Since the headline misled me, this is about the email marketing industry and their use of tracking pixels, as opposed to issues with generic emails.
Re: Dear Email Industry, We’ve Got a GDPR Problem
#6"This stressed out a lot of email marketers, who quite rightly realised that the new regulations would have a significant effect on their ability to acquire and market to customers via their email address"
"The overwhelming majority of commercial email sent today contains tracking pixels and tracking links, these are used to uniquely identify individuals so that opens and clicks can be correctly attributed to them"
Good.
While spammers may have a problem, people don't.
If I want your tracking pixels and emails then I'll opt in.
Re: Dear Email Industry, We’ve Got a GDPR Problem
#7Off-topic: I absolutely love the design choices made by the author of this site. It's the basic browser stylesheet with some nice refinements. A real triumph of minimalism and incredibly readable.
Font is too big.
Re: Dear Email Industry, We’ve Got a GDPR Problem
#8GDPR is europe's problem, not of the entire "email industry"
It is a problem when you are targeting users from Europe, which you are doing almost certainly.
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#9Most of my clients just blacklist EU countries given that they represent such a negligible percentage of their client base
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#10Browsing the web in Europe is like experiencing the rebirth of the pop-up ads era. It has lead to compulsory acceptance. This too shall pass.
There is a reasonable expectation that when you submit your email to a company in exchange for their service, they will email you communications relating to their products and services.