Retention.com Founder on 'Email Laundering'
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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Yet another example of why US citizens would benefit from GDPR-equivalent privacy laws.
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?
It would probably be a better use of time for those people to vote and lobby their legislatures for decent privacy protections in law.
Som.of.us are too European to do that, but still want to help
Yes.
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.