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> The CAN SPAM act actually allows direct marketing email messages to be sent to anyone, without permission, until the recipient explicitly requests that they cease (opt-out). Ladies and gentlemen, let's get this fixed. Spam is not only a waste of resources (bandwidth, time, and money) but it also contributes to malware distribution. What will it take to accomplish this?
Unfortunately, it protects lots of speech, good and bad.
> The CAN SPAM act actually allows direct marketing email messages to be sent to anyone, without permission, until the recipient explicitly requests that they cease (opt-out). Ladies and gentlemen, let's get this fixed. Spam is not only a waste of resources (bandwidth, time, and money) but it also contributes to malware distribution. What will it take to accomplish this?
Overturning the first amendment. Unfortunately, it protects lots of speech, good and bad.
> They are able to do this because sears.com loads Criteo code and uses a criteo.com cookie > there may not be much you can do about this besides blocking cookies Most browsers let you block 3rd-party cookies without blocking all cookies (in this case, blocking the the criteo.com cookie but not the sears.com cookie, when on sears.com): https://www.maketecheasier.com/disable-third-party-cookies-c...
Does this actually count as a third-party cookie if the sears page loads criteo in an iframe (which may be 1px by 1px, and tell criteo that it was invoked by sears)?
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Overturning the first amendment. Unfortunately, it protects lots of speech, good and bad.
Restrictions on commercial solicitation don't generally have First Amendment problems.
That and the fact that any app you download now adds you to their newsletter list. Just because I wanted to try your app, it doesn't mean I want to get tons e-mails from your company. It's so frustrating I stopped trying apps, and instead only download what I really need and/or trust.
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Really wish Medium didn't allow custom domains so I could filter them out properly.
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Why not name names? Let's name and shame companies that are either selling your info or hiding breaches.
I got spam to a email registered with Microsoft. A company I worked for got its email list leaked when the email service they used was breached. The email service posted a "we're investigating" in a blog post on a blog that was soon mysteriously deprecated/taken down.
Probably more evil than the practice described in the article is at the very end. In order to get them to stop, or not start in the first place, you have to give them your email address. So you have to trust them with the very thing you want them to stop abusing. No thanks. The real answer is a very strict ad blocker. On all your devices. Every time you browse. The only way to keep your personal information safe is t…
> So you have to trust them with the very thing you want them to stop abusing. "Fun" fact: I register on sites with addresses like "address-suffix@domain", with a different suffix for different sites. I won't name names, but I now receive viagra-level spam to several of them, which reasonable people would expect to be able to trust. haveibeenpwned.com confirms that one of them, off the top of my head, was part of a b…