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Retention.com Founder on 'Email Laundering' (www.practicalecommerce.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Wispy2891@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] modem_down@thebrainbin.org 14 points 1 week ago

Yet another example of why US citizens would benefit from GDPR-equivalent privacy laws.

[–] czl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 points 1 week ago

Som.of.us are too European to do that, but still want to help

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Yes.

[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

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.