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Spamming and surveillance. What's not to like?

• ploum 4y ago
  I feel that the most successful con the spamming industry managed to do was to rename themselves "marketing email" or "mailing". Could we just go back to "spam" which it is and has always be.
  • asdff 4y ago
    At least the plain text nigerian prince emails don't have a tracking pixel
• ploum 4y ago
  I was completely astonished that this submission as nearly as much vote in a few hours than another, a lot more interesting, about trying to go to disney world without being spied. It took me a while to remember that, despite its very light and cool interface, HN has been built by a subculture whose focus is to enrich itself by making companies that lure users then spy on them and try to extract as much profit as it could from them. So you and I are probably the outsiders here…