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Exactly! On their website you have to go to 'FAQ' on the bottom of the page and then to the bottom of that to find: >When you sign up for Unroll.Me, Unroll.Me

Exactly! On their website you have to go to 'FAQ' on the bottom of the page and then to the bottom of that to find: >When you sign up for Unroll.Me, Unroll.Me uses your data to provide you email management services, and for other purposes described in Unroll.Me’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Unroll.Me is a part of Slice Technologies, whose market research organization Slice Intelligence provides the world’s leading brands, retailers, and marketers e-commerce insights to help them better understand market and consumer trends. In accordance with Unroll.Me’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, Unroll.Me shares information from your commercial and transactional emails with Slice. Slice’s technology automatically extracts purchase information from these emails and uses that information to build anonymized market research products for its clients. Slice’s market research products do not include your personal information. I think it is safe to say that 99% of the users using unroll.me have no idea how much data they are handing over. If your business model is incompatible with GDPR then your business model in not compatible with how we want (our data) to be treated. Companies complaining about GDPR goes into the same category as companies complaining about minimum wage for me.

fossuser 9y ago
I think you're probably right - the nice thing about Unroll.Me though is that it works really well and the people that need to use it are probably in a bad situation with their data anyway. I ended up using it to clean up my mom's email inbox because she was subscribed to nearly a thousand marketing emails and it was the only service I found that could actually fix that without at least a day's worth of manual effort.
- ocdtrekkie 9y ago
  Out of curiosity: Was your mother fully informed of how much data about her you were giving to Unroll.me, and did she understand the implications of it?
  - pulse7 9y ago
    <sarcasm>Of course: the time gained by using Untoll.Me - "at least a day's worth of manual effort" - can be used for reading their Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, for analysing, understanding and explaining all the implications...</sarcasm>
  - fossuser 9y ago
    This was prior to their bad press so it was not obvious to me at the time. I think I saw they used anonymized data from commercial emails which seemed like a reasonable tradeoff given the state of things. My mom does not use email for personal data - it's primarily just subscriptions and the account had become unusable.
s17n 9y ago
> Companies complaining about GDPR goes into the same category as companies complaining about minimum wage for me. It's more like complaining about any other compliance cost. Consultancies are making probably billions of dollars off of the General Electrics of the world preparing them for gdpr compliance. Then you've got the legal fees. And in the end it feels like you have just burned all that money, because in most cases, regulation doesn't actually accomplish anything. But hopefully it is all worth it for the cases where it actually improves people's lives.
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sp527 9y ago
When they say “anonymized”, they still mean tailored targeting right (probably by hashing)? Not statistical aggregates?

fossuser 9y ago

I think you're probably right - the nice thing about Unroll.Me though is that it works really well and the people that need to use it are probably in a bad situation with their data anyway. I ended up using it to clean up my mom's email inbox because she was subscribed to nearly a thousand marketing emails and it was the only service I found that could actually fix that without at least a day's worth of manual effort.

ocdtrekkie 9y ago
Out of curiosity: Was your mother fully informed of how much data about her you were giving to Unroll.me, and did she understand the implications of it?
- pulse7 9y ago
  <sarcasm>Of course: the time gained by using Untoll.Me - "at least a day's worth of manual effort" - can be used for reading their Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, for analysing, understanding and explaining all the implications...</sarcasm>
- fossuser 9y ago
  This was prior to their bad press so it was not obvious to me at the time. I think I saw they used anonymized data from commercial emails which seemed like a reasonable tradeoff given the state of things. My mom does not use email for personal data - it's primarily just subscriptions and the account had become unusable.

s17n 9y ago

> Companies complaining about GDPR goes into the same category as companies complaining about minimum wage for me. It's more like complaining about any other compliance cost. Consultancies are making probably billions of dollars off of the General Electrics of the world preparing them for gdpr compliance. Then you've got the legal fees. And in the end it feels like you have just burned all that money, because in most cases, regulation doesn't actually accomplish anything. But hopefully it is all worth it for the cases where it actually improves people's lives.

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sp527 9y ago

When they say “anonymized”, they still mean tailored targeting right (probably by hashing)? Not statistical aggregates?