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user-inactivated  ·  2530 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Unroll.me used its "smart unsubscribe" list to sell Lyft user data to Uber

Holy shit. Is there anything at all that Uber does that is not illegal, immoral or just up and up fucked?

Don't worry though, the CEO of Unroll.me is Heartbroken over the whole thing where they sold your data to the same mailing lists that you were unsubbing from.

In other news..... HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH





kleinbl00  ·  2530 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Pando had an even snarkier take.

    Here’s a good rule of thumb: If the New York Times reporting on what your business does -- not something bad it did, just the actual thing it does to make money -- triggers a wave of outrage from users, then your business is horrible.

    And here’s a way to do better: Don’t start a company that reads users’ email and sells details of their private behavior to the highest bidder. That’s a horrible way to spend your short life on this earth. Stop doing it. Do something better.