Yes, you unsubscribed from that mailing list, but before you did we went and put your name down for 575 new email lists which you have not unsubscribed from.

[–] HaveYouPaidYourDues@lemmy.world 47 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Unsubscribing from this mailing list automatically signs you up for this other identical mailing list

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago

Unsubscribing confirms this is a monitored account, so we have sold your email address to 9 million other companies.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That first one should be punishable by flogging. Also the second one, but the first one is a very common strategy for opting you in to things you explicitly opted out of, and I'm pretty sure it's illegal. But, since no one ever enforces the law against mega corps, they're free to operate with impunity.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 46 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Excuse me, that else should be elseif( user.region != 'eu' )

[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 61 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

elseif( user.region = 'eu' ){ SecretlyCollectData(user)}

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Would be neat if Google got caught with a GDPR violation, the max fine is 4% of your global revenue, which for Google would be 12.2 billion.

So far the biggest has been Meta who was hit for 1.2 billion.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 19 points 8 months ago

Google: "Haha, hahaha, no."

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Else if (EU) {be annoying while collecting data;}

[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

No then they just don't show you that they have your data...

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 26 points 8 months ago

That isn't real. It wouldn't pass peer review. Here is the actual code:

function GetCookieValue(x) {
  return JSON.stringify(x);
}

user.cookies.agreed = Boolean(GetCookieValue(true));

if(!DarkPatternPopup()) {
  // Make sure we respect the user choice
  user.cookies.agreed = Boolean(GetCookieValue(false));
}

if(user.cookies.agreed) CollectData(user);

[–] ramius345@sh.itjust.works 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't need an if, just set the variable and collect the data. Saved you a jump instruction. The compiler is going to optimize it out anyway, but simpler code is better and some people forget the -O flag.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah but the last requires you to explicitly distinguish between the two cases.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

The only problem with the code I see is that the first 3 lines are not needed.

/Google