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PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] jago@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nor I, on my in-Canada account. Desktop access only; I don't have the Paypal app installed on my phone.

The article's image shows, under Manage your privacy settings, the options:

Permissions you've given
Interest-based marketing (which is the option pertinent to this issue)
- Interest-based marketing on PayPal
- Interest-based marketing in your other accounts
Blocked contacts

But my account's options are:
Permissions you've given
Manage your cookies
- Marketing
- Performance
- Functional
- Essential
Blocked contacts

Possibly the Marketing checkbox is the Canadian version of this? I've got that checkbox turned off.

Amazon forced to recall more than 400,000 products that could kill, electrocute people | Instead of recalling the products, Amazon sent messages to customers that "downplayed the severity" of hazards in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] jago@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

It's not a nitpick to know the meaning of the words we use, and how to use them. ashley.belanger@arstechnica.com and the arstechnica editors should know better.

Tenacious D’s Newcastle show postponed after comment about Trump assassination attempt in c/world@lemmy.world

Fixed. in c/funny@lemmy.world

[-] jago@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And also the shadow of his tousled hairstyle on his shirt beside her thumb, and on her hand, is smoothed-out to match the slicked hair. Fantastic attention to detail.