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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Lmfao, even USPS is fucking us hard now? Our assholes are stretching too much nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was a mistake, they had tracking code on their own website they didn't understand.

Not that it justifies it tbh, the whole "let's collect analytics" is cancerous

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These mistakes always happen at our expense. Did not facebook get our incomes in similar way from turbotax.

At some point, people start to notice...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

We are always the fucking punching bag.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

No shit, that’s why HelloFresh is sending me ads in my name a week after I moved

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'm not in the tech industry, but should Meta have some kind of obligation to report this to USPS? There's no way they didn't realize.

I realize the fine print user agreements (which I've noticed have become 3 to 4 separate documents these days -- links to other links) exist for "a reason" but I feel like there ought to be a "mandatory to report" such a thing from the corporate end.

I don't expect the USPS to have the same level of tech guru to combat corporate giant sneakiness