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Last month, the true cost of Unroll.me was revealed: The service is owned by the market-research firm Slice Intelligence, and according to a report in The Times

Last month, the true cost of Unroll.me was revealed: The service is owned by the market-research firm Slice Intelligence, and according to a report in The Times, while Unroll.me is cleaning up users’ inboxes, it’s also rifling through their trash. When Slice found digital ride receipts from Lyft in some users’ accounts, it sold the anonymized data off to Lyft’s ride-hailing rival, Uber.

j_s 9y ago
This was a useful service for many tech people; some here are still discovering this issue that blew up two weeks ago. Initial discussion of the "buried lede" in the NYT article Uber CEO Plays with Fire: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178397 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178397 Discussion of the CEO's non-apology: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14181152 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14181152
- 659087 9y ago
  I can't help but wonder about the competence of "tech people" who are handing random services on the internet full access to their email accounts to save themselves minimal amounts of time.
  - pc86 9y ago
    Hey how else am I supposed to be 10x and have time to write this Rust CRUD app?