This service allows Shopify stores to get the visitor email without consent and start spamming them by adding them to the spam list without opt-in
The article is an interview to the CEO of such a privacy-raping service and it looks so proud of this monster
Apparently there are A LOT of stores stealing user data using this service, as he boasts wasting $800k on a vanity domain like if it was peanuts.
From another article it looks like the price of a stolen email is about $0.25 and the store must commit on paying at least $500/month.
Apparently contacting people using stolen credentials is leading to sales, I don't understand. If I received a spam to my personal email from a store that I just visited BUT I didn't filled with my info, I would get ultramad and would never ever do a purchase on that store
6 Comments
modem_down@thebrainbin.org · 14 pts · 5d
Yet another example of why US citizens would benefit from GDPR-equivalent privacy laws.
czl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 5d
By understand how/where they collect the emails, wouldn’t it be possible for a coordinated group of people to poison their data so badly it makes this invasive bullshit unreliable?
modem_down@thebrainbin.org · 4 pts · 5d
It would probably be a better use of time for those people to vote and lobby their legislatures for decent privacy protections in law.
czl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 5d
Som.of.us are too European to do that, but still want to help
Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 5d
Yes.
hirihit640@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 5d
Many reasons why email is flawed. Would be nice if the world switched to a better system, where both parties have to agree to connect, like any modern messaging system.