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I think you should remove this link. It is just not nice.
by aymeric 14y ago
I think you should remove this link. It is just not nice.
- spicyj 14y agoHow so?
- danneu 14y agoProbably because it circumvents the price of submitting your email address.
- mahmud 14y agoYou don't have to submit anything.
- aymeric 14y agoDon't you have to submit your email address to gain access to the PDF?
- timrichard 14y agoI find it odd sometimes that people don't take the same attitude towards Adblock. Sponsored links are a price too.
- drostie 14y agoI don't know. On the one hand, it's also not nice for people to fish for my email address, which is why services like Mailinator are so wildly popular. On the other hand, it doesn't always justify not-nice behaviour to note that it's in response to, and works to ameliorate, other not-nice behaviour. Yes, I know, 37signals is a bit more respectable than most of the people who want your email. Nevertheless they're signing you up for an email list without explicitly asking you -- the email that they send back specifically says, "Periodically we'll drop you a line if we have something interesting to share." I did not check any box which agreed to that, and I shouldn't have to unsubscribe from things I never subscribed to.
- Void_ 14y agoE-mail is a low price for "Getting Real". I'm just surprised that 37signals are using techniques of "six-pack in a week"-kind of sites.
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- facorreia 14y agoFor years I have worked under the assumption that my email has been harvested to death, sold and resold. I don't care about giving it to companies. Gmail hides the spam from me and it's quick filter wizard helps me hide anything else I want to.