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This website 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

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[-] XLE@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago

We identify anonymous website visitors, mainly for big Shopify stores.

Thanks, I hate it.

We can get an email address for that person, help you email and add them to your list safely.

I don't think this individual understands the meaning of the word "safely"

We partnered with publisher networks for the identity info, which we capture and transfer to our customers. We’re the middleman.

I love how surveillance capitalism has ensured that nobody in the surveillance pipeline is responsible for their own behavior. (Earlier they said they used tracking pixels on various sites before they switched to just Shopify, so I do hold this person responsible)

[-] bright_side_@piefed.world 4 points 6 days ago

typically, the brand (our customer) gets one email daily from somebody asking, “Dude, why am I on this list?”

If they get mad, we show them the date in the URL of where they opted into the publisher network. That shuts them up.

thanks, I hate it too 😵‍💫

[-] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

I don't understand how anybody who's annoyed with spam would be satisfied with that answer either. I'd want to know which shop it was, and how to avoid them.

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