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Yeah just look at BBB reviews for subscription companies...


Or better yet, don't. One has no reason to take the Better Business Bureau seriously. There was no reason 30 years ago when I, as a business owner, signed up for it, no reason now. "Ooooh, you'll report me to the BBB, those three senior citizens that actually look at that might not do business with me!"

Plus, I looked up Amazon: A-. What was I supposed to see here?


I mean, if a company doesn't take the BBB seriously why would they take you seriously?

I think Amazon typically has a good reputation for consumers. You'd have better luck looking up Comcast [1] and if you compare that page to Amazon's you'll certainly understand that you may encounter some difficulties and perhaps choose a different provider (lol) for your service.

[1]: https://www.bbb.org/us/pa/philadelphia/profile/cable-tv/comc...


Is there anyone under the age of 50 who even knows what BBB is, much less cares about it?


Amazing


This is the biggest issue; they are already controlling the media for large population of young Americans.


No kidding...


The answer is Miami


What's the climate change outlook in 20 years though?


bleak


Blah blah blah. This is a pretty poor take.


Its not "crap" its literally the same parameters to understand where the traffic comes from.


AKA crap. When you walk into the store, does the clerk know which street have you used to drive to the store? Do you tell him on purpose even if he didn't ask? I didn't think so.


I'm regularly asked for my zipcode and I give it happily. Feels like the right tradeoff between allowing marketers to do their job and preserving my privacy.


Thanks for screwing over marketers for no reason.


If you think user privacy is "no reason", this thinking is exactly the problem with the online advertising.

Privacy is a right. Ad-tracking is not.


It's not just privacy! When I want to share an article with someone, I don't want the link to have 1000 characters with urlencoded arguments! On mobile I often do it manually and it's very annoying!


The reason is avoiding tracking, whether you agree with it or not, though.


This is just not true. From firsthand experience and just any basic research.


From a complete layman, Do you have any good data points to start research for this topic?

My initial thoughts are scanning through news websites.


At a first pass, https://www.sec.gov/news/pressreleases lists at least 8 enforcement actions in the month of April alone, along with a few other things.


A scrape is not a leak


Well, FB doesn't allow me to export my own contacts' details - email, phone number, etc - with it's data export, so no, this is a leak.


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