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Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by glogla on Friday August 16, 2019 @03:30AM (#20712910)
I like it, but why do I have to give my email for emission calculation? It's off-putting, I don't want even more spam. And I will tell them where do I live and how, will they package it with my email and sell it to ad companies as a handy profile?

Sorry to be paranoid, but most startups (uber, airbnb, paypal, not to mention facebook ...) are evil and exploitative.

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Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by mtranzambetti on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:21PM (#20717990)
Wren co-founder here — we ask for your email so we can send you a report on your footprint (if you choose) or come back to the onboarding flow later. We're spinning the calculator out into an open resource soon though!

Finally, we just started two months ago and have not sold user information to ad companies nor do we ever plan to. That sounds like an evil and unnecessary way to go about not accomplishing our mission.

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Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by chrdlu on Saturday August 17, 2019 @06:33PM (#20726852)
Just got my first report from Project Wren! Loved it so much I copied and pasted it here so I can share it:

https://www.notion.so/chrislu/Project-Wren-August-17th-Updat...

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