{"id":15624,"date":"2016-08-20T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15624"},"modified":"2016-08-22T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:55:21","slug":"browsing-your-website-does-not-mean-i-want-your-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/20\/browsing-your-website-does-not-mean-i-want-your-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Browsing Your Website Does Not Mean I Want Your Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@fredbenenson\/browsing-your-website-does-not-mean-i-want-your-spam-3821267e902\">Fred Benenson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@fredbenenson\/browsing-your-website-does-not-mean-i-want-your-spam-3821267e902\">\n<p>Criteo (and their partners, like sears.com) have successfully performed an end-run around the traditional newsletter opt-in process.<\/p>\n<p>By managing email lists and functioning as an advertising retargeting network, Criteo enables spammers to enroll innocent users browsing the web to 3rd party newsletters.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Criteo&rsquo;s claim that they didn&rsquo;t store my information is besides the point. The problem is that I got signed up for spam because I was merely browsing the web, and now a third party has my name and email address. Criteo gets to claim they don&rsquo;t store that information, but what does it matter if it ends up in the hands of spammers like Sears?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2016-08-22): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_sjs\/status\/767014293770338304\">Sami Samhuri<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_sjs\/status\/767014293770338304\">\n<p>Make sure you disable 3rd party cookies in all your web browsers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Benenson: Criteo (and their partners, like sears.com) have successfully performed an end-run around the traditional newsletter opt-in process. By managing email lists and functioning as an advertising retargeting network, Criteo enables spammers to enroll innocent users browsing the web to 3rd party newsletters. [&#8230;] Criteo&rsquo;s claim that they didn&rsquo;t store my information is besides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[354,355,356,96],"class_list":["post-15624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-advertising","tag-privacy","tag-spam","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15636,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624\/revisions\/15636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}