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    Good news if you are a resident of California, Vermont, or North Dakota:

    we need to first obtain your consent before we share your nonpublic personal information for this purpose and to allow you to benefit from this service. This Supplemental Privacy Notice provides additional information about this data sharing and how you can consent to such sharing.

    My “Personalized Shopping” setting was unchecked.

    Another reminder that your state and local elections matter more than the federal to your daily lives.

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        Even more so, yes. I will be mostly fine in California even if Trump is elected, in all likelihood. The worst things about Trump’s presidency were not felt here but seen in other states.

        Obviously Trump is a huge threat to federalism in general and democracy at the federal level, but they can only do so much to the states and cities.

        Where would you rather live under a trump presidency? Los Angeles or Orlando? Seattle or Nashville? Philadelphia or Little Rock? Even Austin, a very blue city, is prevented from doing a lot of good by the state of Texas.

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    There is no such setting in my PayPal account. I’m not in the EU. There are only options for how people can find me, blocked contacts, request my data, correct my data, and delete my account.

    I am extremely tired of this shit. Doing business with a company shouldn’t mean that every other business on the planet gets to know everything that said company has been wrongfully spying on me for.

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    19 hours ago

    I’m unable to turn off this setting right now. Getting an error reported. I’m sure this is totally unrelated to people finding out about it and turning it off.

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      a timeless classic.

      had the same problem with lufthansa where the refund form would lead to an error every time after filling it …for a whole week conveniently this happened after a strike created a lot of clear cases for refunds

      obviously you have to apply for a refund for your non existent flight. it wont happen automatically

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        Please log into your account to edit your email preferences.

        Bitch, I did the guest checkout so I wouldn’t have to make an account. It’s never “faster” or “more convenient” to check out - my browser already has my details saved, I don’t need my credit card and personal info stored in yet another poorly secured database just waiting for the next breach and another free year of credit monitoring.

        Take your accounts and mailing lists and fuck off already.

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          I run my own email server, so when I get unsolicited spam from a company, I’ve started creating server rules that forward emails from their spam address to their sales or support address, and then deletes the email from my server before ever getting delivered. I’m done playing their games, now they can play my games!

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    21 hours ago

    Note that there are two similar options: “PayPal shopping” and “Personalized shopping”. The post mentions this but they’re similar enough that I kind of glossed over it and almost missed the Personalized one.

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    I closed my account when that Uber marketing exec got hired by PayPal. This was inevitable.

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    I fully expect PayPal to harvest and share the United States data anyway - regardless if you opt out - and they’ll get a slap on the wrist 5 years later when someone finds out about it.