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Those emails are awesome and any company sending looks better in my book. That said I never accept their plead, I absolutely never ever sign up to any kinds of
by tjoff 9y ago
Those emails are awesome and any company sending looks better in my book.
That said I never accept their plead, I absolutely never ever sign up to any kinds of email marketing so the ONLY reason they even attempt this is because they were doing shady business earlier.
I bet that we will see lots of complaints where companies cry of losing their audience. Well first off it was an illegal channel anyway and second noone read your mail anyway.
GDPR is one of few things that honestly gives me hope for the future of internet. It has the potential to embed a consciousness of how data is managed, both in companies and users.
- DanBC 9y ago> Those emails are awesome The point is that those emails are clear signs that companies are ignoring existing laws. It's already illegal, under PECR, to send marketing email to people without their permission. This should be somewhat reassuring to all the GDPR alarmists: we have very many companies ignoring the law at the moment, but not being fined.
- tjoff 9y agoExactly, the point is that unlike existing laws GDPR has a chance of success. That is awesome.
- tjoff 9y agoRereading GP I might have misinterpreted a bit (the above still stands though). I see two kinds of emails. One is along the lines that "FYI: we updated our policies regarding X", those are perfectly fine. Then we have "please click here to allow us to send you more emails", which is more or less admitting "hey, we abused the system and spammed you before, please let us continue to do so". And I actually get a smile on my face when I receiver either of them. Yes, the second one should be really bad but I already knew that. The signal I get from the second email is "hey, we're not particularly happy about the situation but we will at least obey the new law". And that makes me happy for many reasons.