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OT Internet businesses getting pushy
It appears to me that many Internet businesses are trying to obfuscate
their settings. Specifically... Google, Amazon, and eBay. But I've caught a glimpse of Facebook (I think) trying to do the same. One example is having many pages worth of explanations for their settings, with no easy way like a direct link to get to the actual settings. Naturally big companies don't want customers to change advertising preferences, since being pushy is what advertising is all about. They can fake concern by providing lots of documentation and settings, at the same time they make actually changing the settings tedious and time-consuming. Most recently, eBay is sending feedback requests to my email address. At the bottom of the email, they have a cryptic way of opting out. They say if I don't want to receive such messages, I need to change my account preferences. They provide a link to a page that has a dozen different categories of preferences, none of which are clearly associated with them spamming my email asking for feedback. Every time eBay spams my email for feedback, the SOBs will get negative feedback. I know how they hate negative or even neutral feedback, so maybe that will get their attention. Amazon was doing the same. But perhaps my graphic reply to one of its sellers got them to stop the practice. Or maybe they got enough other complaints. Online merchants have no business whatsoever using a customer's email for anything other than information about orders. Period. |
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