E-mail organizing service Unroll.me sold scanned their customers inbox for Lyft receipts and sold them to Uber according to an article in NYT today.
Article: nytimes.com
Excerpt: twitter.com
Fallout in progress: twitter.com
Yet another botnet disaster
Jordan Perez
Lucas Torres
That's why really everyone should boycott amurican shit.
Josiah Stewart
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Only Israel and Saudi Arabia are worse
Grayson Foster
>Uber employees were also told to create computer programs known as scripts
Quality article
William Anderson
>a free service
>that rifles through your mail
Whew who would have quessed?
It really is not that complicated. They have to make money somehow and if you're not paying what do you think they turn to next?
Angel Clark
Unroll.me (((sells))) """anonymized""" data of its users.
Anthony Hernandez
normalfags blown the fuck out
Isaac Watson
Stallman was right.
Trusting tech companies with ANY of your data is just asking to be backstabbed.
Cooper Wright
These stories always make me laugh. My data is useless garbage, yet retarded marketers buy it, while I use services for free.
It's like paying people with your own doodoo
Jeremiah Hill
>My data is useless garbage
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
Wyatt Wilson
>yfw they are able to deduce your sex life from e-mail usage pattern and sells your data to a Chinese protein sex doll company
Leo Wilson
>providing your login to a third party
gee what could go wrong???
Mason Howard
whai is unroll.me
Cooper Jones
tl;dr: captures all recurring emails (like newsletters and shit) into a daily digest and allows you to unsub them with one click.
Carter Torres
Lol, their excuse is just "Should have read the TOS".
Isaac Gonzalez
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Xavier Morris
based this is same shit as google do, early ms tried to fight it with "gmail men"
theverge.com
but normies couldn't give a fuck so they made win10
Lucas Bennett
>we do not send email content. we extract anonymized purchase data from emails. And we are not horrible. Really!
Gavin Adams
>twitter.com
jesus christ, that damage control...
Tyler Mitchell
Thinking of the people in charge of PR makes me sad.
Jason Wilson
the people whos data is being sold to other companies probably have it worse
also nice trips
Daniel Bailey
>dude, you said it was ok
James Stewart
>that picture of their HQ open plan offices
What the fuck? That looks more like a quick and dirty LAN party setup than a workplace, I don't even want to know how it feels like after working there for a few months.
Nathan Cooper
Like you're among 25 year olds who have no fucking idea what they're doing just goofing off until the VC money runs out.
Carson Edwards
Uber is honestly one of the worst companies both ethically and economically in tech right now and I can't and probably will never understand why people and investors continually throw money into the open fire pit that's them.
Oliver Hall
So basically a spam filter for normies? Anything that properly handles mail can do this on it's own (Claws + SpamAssassin, Thunderbird, Mail.app, GMail)
Daniel Perez
Because it's the hot new big "disruption" start-up, and everybody else threw their money in it also, so you might as well also.
I'm pretty sure Uber reporting a massive loss and losing market share will be the beginning of the current SV tech bubble bursting.
Ryan Reyes
I use Uber from time to time and it's cheaper than a cab. Most drivers tell me it used to be cool and get good earnings but nowadays some are barely breaking even.
Jose Ramirez
>used to be cool
>nowadays some are barely breaking even
Henry Cooper
According to them, it's because a lot of people jumped into Uber to make money, so now you have a lot of drivers. There's just so much demand.
Ryder Morgan
The market will sort it out.
Too many drivers -> drivers leave until profit can be made
Austin Green
>The market will sort it out.
>the invisible hand of the market
I get what you mean, and I know you mean well, and I don't want to be mean but fuck you man. If markets truly self-regulated bubbles won't happen.
But this might hold for Uber, unless you know, new drivers get into some sort of revolving door.