This shouldn’t be normalised
This shouldn’t be normalised
Outlook got updated on my iPhone last night and now they want me to agree to having my data shared with 807 partners.
Important note: I don’t use outlook as my primary email provider. I use Proton with a custom domain but I keep outlook for some old emails.
Ridiculous. How can someone write "we value your privacy" and then share data with 807 partners. If I share anything with 8 people I pretty much consider it public information already, unless I have a very good reason to trust them. Sharing something with 807 companies is probably less private than taking all that data, putting it up on a billboard, and placing that billboard next to the busiest place in town.
It's not that they now changed something with data collection and sharing within the update. They always did it, all services free of charge do it and most that cost money likely take the extra money as well.
It's now that they tell you in a short and informative way (1st sentence) and ask for your consent.
What's really infuriating, are websites and services that have an "Accept All" button but no "Reject All". Instead you have to manage individually and sometimes I have to flip 30 separate buttons to disable data sharing, where they even call advertisers a 'necessary 3rd party' requiring interaction on top.
By value they mean how much they salivate about selling it for profit.
They want you to think that "to value it" in this context means "to have it in high steem". When it's more like "to put a price tag on it".
Off course they "value" your privacy. They sell and profit so much value out of your privacy
It used to be 797
If you said to someone "can you keep a secret" and they said "I value your privacy, I'll only share your secret with 807 others", I doubt you'd be telling them many secrets.
Might as well just get your secret printed on a billboard and hang it up in town.
I think that my record is just over 3000 legitimate partners
It's been normalised for years, maybe decade. The only difference is that now they have to bother with telling you and asking for permission (which some still ignore completely).
Also, since we're talking Outlook, some mail client send your credentials to their servers to improve your user experience by fetching mails on their end, meaning that not only data from your device are sent to whoever paid for them, but your actual mails are free for them to access without you ever knowing. The new outlook on desktop does that, but outlook is not the only one to do this.
We live in the greatest of times.
They did that before. They just didn't tell you how many partners!
Yikes and a big hell no! Reject, uninstall, and review bomb that fucker into oblivion.
I was certain this was parody before I went and read your text. wtf
If i see this kind of shit, 90% of the time their domain would just go into my browsers' blocklist. It's likely either riddled with ads, or hosts incorrect/incompletely information too
At least it has reject all
Literally beyond parody
You should know better than to resort to whores with 807 partners. you've gone past the red flag into the red zone territory.