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[–] ares35@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

newsletters can have trackers and shit built right in, and this is especially true when using a service to do the mailing. this is, of course, on top of the contact info and anything else requested at 'signup'. none of which needs to be 'required' when reading a web site or an author-submitted post somewhere. there's basically two reasons to lock content behind a 'newsletter': a paid sub is coming, or selling readers' data.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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.