I was just labor. I didn’t do more than extract the data, compile it, then wait for the email telling me what color hex to put where and which group identifier to send it to. I wasn’t as much of a thinker back then and one day I was looking at the data as I organized it and was wondering why the hell do they know John Doe has 3 kids, rents, and had a shellfish allergy?
Then I realized pretty quickly what my job really was. The real terrifying part was those spreadsheets just lived on my laptop. Not password protected or any proprietary software. Just Excel and gmail to send them to whoever I worked for so they could send me the next week’s campaign layout. Then I built the emails, added the links, sent them off to thousands and thousands of people grouped by whatever standards had been set that week. More than that, I obviously used a software for mass emailing, but my list of recipients was just another spreadsheet with countless people’s email, names, and phone numbers.
I now realize why these huge data beaches occur everywhere from these giant corporations. You think they’ve got “security” or whatever and they protect your info. In reality a 26 year old stoner with a MacBook used for watching porn and pirating movies and games using whatever basic ass free antivirus software has all of it in a folder, labeled email list, literally on his desktop with an unbreakable pin of 1234, being employed by people who have never seen, heard, or talked to.
And he doesn’t even realize the implications of having this at all. I’d like to think things have gotten more strict with security and whatnot, but if that was true it wouldn’t happen so often.
I am screenshotting and bookmarking this for next time someone ribs me for how mad i get over the incessant advertizing or the data harvesting. It is exhausting to be made felt like I’m overreacting when it should be the normal response for your own home and devices to be constantly raped by ad-gorithms. FUCK MARKETING.
Well if the reality of what we see daily is any indication then it has gotten exponentially worse.
I don’t really know what we do about this besides just shutting down the internet. Kind of a lost cause. Capitalism has almost entirely ruined the internet. I don’t think it’s saveable at this point.
I was just labor. I didn’t do more than extract the data, compile it, then wait for the email telling me what color hex to put where and which group identifier to send it to. I wasn’t as much of a thinker back then and one day I was looking at the data as I organized it and was wondering why the hell do they know John Doe has 3 kids, rents, and had a shellfish allergy?
Then I realized pretty quickly what my job really was. The real terrifying part was those spreadsheets just lived on my laptop. Not password protected or any proprietary software. Just Excel and gmail to send them to whoever I worked for so they could send me the next week’s campaign layout. Then I built the emails, added the links, sent them off to thousands and thousands of people grouped by whatever standards had been set that week. More than that, I obviously used a software for mass emailing, but my list of recipients was just another spreadsheet with countless people’s email, names, and phone numbers.
I now realize why these huge data beaches occur everywhere from these giant corporations. You think they’ve got “security” or whatever and they protect your info. In reality a 26 year old stoner with a MacBook used for watching porn and pirating movies and games using whatever basic ass free antivirus software has all of it in a folder, labeled email list, literally on his desktop with an unbreakable pin of 1234, being employed by people who have never seen, heard, or talked to.
And he doesn’t even realize the implications of having this at all. I’d like to think things have gotten more strict with security and whatnot, but if that was true it wouldn’t happen so often.
I am screenshotting and bookmarking this for next time someone ribs me for how mad i get over the incessant advertizing or the data harvesting. It is exhausting to be made felt like I’m overreacting when it should be the normal response for your own home and devices to be constantly raped by ad-gorithms. FUCK MARKETING.
Good. It’s honestly so much worse than people realize. But people don’t care because magic pocket square go brrr
Well if the reality of what we see daily is any indication then it has gotten exponentially worse.
I don’t really know what we do about this besides just shutting down the internet. Kind of a lost cause. Capitalism has almost entirely ruined the internet. I don’t think it’s saveable at this point.