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Yeah these companies always have some sort of dodgy trick, like unroll.me that was advertised as an email unsubscriber. Reading the docs I would guess they use
by cavisne 7y ago
Yeah these companies always have some sort of dodgy trick, like unroll.me that was advertised as an email unsubscriber. Reading the docs I would guess they use their gps polygons and wifi addresses to help apps spy on users, and in return they can resell the user data.
- cosmie 7y agoAlso keep in mind that unroll.me actually was just a convenient tool for unsubscribing from marketing emails. At first. Then the founders stumbled into it's potential worth when the access required for that purpose was secondarily leveraged for marketing intelligence purposes, and was bought by (what's currently) Slice Technologies. Even when companies aren't using dodgy tricks, you've got to keep an eye out for ways they could if they felt like it.