Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply with GDPR

Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit... by fossuser on Saturday May 05, 2018 @06:13PM (#17004144)

I think you're probably right - the nice thing about Unroll.Me though is that it works really well and the people that need to use it are probably in a bad situation with their data anyway.

I ended up using it to clean up my mom's email inbox because she was subscribed to nearly a thousand marketing emails and it was the only service I found that could actually fix that without at least a day's worth of manual effort.

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Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit... by ocdtrekkie on Saturday May 05, 2018 @07:21PM (#17004420)

Out of curiosity: Was your mother fully informed of how much data about her you were giving to Unroll.me, and did she understand the implications of it?

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Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit... by pulse7 on Saturday May 05, 2018 @08:33PM (#17004670)

<sarcasm>Of course: the time gained by using Untoll.Me - "at least a day's worth of manual effort" - can be used for reading their Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, for analysing, understanding and explaining all the implications...</sarcasm>

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Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit... by fossuser on Sunday May 06, 2018 @01:10AM (#17005310)

This was prior to their bad press so it was not obvious to me at the time. I think I saw they used anonymized data from commercial emails which seemed like a reasonable tradeoff given the state of things. My mom does not use email for personal data - it's primarily just subscriptions and the account had become unusable.

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