• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Just because they CAN have trackers doesn’t make them all bad. You do not know this mailing list does, so it is blatant fear mongering.

    You may as well be complaining about how web cookies can be used for bad things. Is it true? Yes. Is it true everywhere? NO! And writing rules around it so ignorantly is how you get the GDPR clause where EVERYONE has a cookie warning popup and hides the tracking cookie options a couple pages in, so they STILL use tracking cookies, and now with legally “informed” consent!

    The fear mongering made the situation WORSE because ignorant fucks were more afraid than informed.

    Stop being an ignorant fearmonger.

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      10 months ago

      Doesn’t sound like you’ve been paying attention the last 20 years if you think this highly of tech companies

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        10 months ago

        My opinion is about email, not tech companies. If they’re tracking you, it’s most likely not through email.

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          10 months ago

          …tech companies use email all day long to link digital data together. Most people who manage a newsletter do not write their own newsletter software. In fact practically none of them do. Ergo, you get tracked via newsletter also.

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      10 months ago

      GDPR requires companies to offer a “only neccessary cookies” option that is easily accessible. Anytime you find a site that works as you’ve described you can and should report them.

      Also, there are plenty of options for blocking those popups and/or auto selecting only neccessary.