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Just logged in, just found it, just opted out. Thanks for the heads-up OP.
But fucking fuck. Can we put a stop to this? Legally? We could call it sometime like... The National Opt-out Policy Elimination (NOPE) Act or something.
It's called GDPR
Ah yes, that thing that sites mention on those annoying popups before making us sign away our privacy anyway.
That thing which makes Meta and Apple so scared they do not release their new products in AI anymore in the EU to pressure us to loosen up the laws. That has already been costly to these companies.
That prevents Paypal from doing this change in the EU.
The law that has been awesome so far.
Yeah, critics don't realise that headlines like that don't phase me at all since GDPR.
Clicking on "deny all" is well worth the positives. I think there's even add ons that do it for you.
Most of those popups are illegal, according to the GDPR. Both opt-in and opt-out need to be just as easily possible.
Exacly, these popups are completely unnecessary and just a form of malicious compliance by the website creators.
They are not even compliance a lot of the times.
They are the equivalent of begging on the street, some of them aggressive enough that it's illegal.
It's not illegal if it's not being enforced.
You can pick out a company and sue them.
What? As a private citizen? in +this* economy?
Wasn't the point of stuff like the GDPR that the governments would be the ones doing the enforcing and the suing?
Well, you can also file a formal complaint with your regional data protection officer. Usually, this is resolved outside of court, though, so it doesn't necessarily prove that the behavior was illegal (although a judge might take the data protection officer's opinion as expert input for future trials anyways).
No, GDPR is exactly what allows anyone to sue corporations with any chance of success and impact.
Yeah but still at the cost for a private citizen, right?
So, not in this economy.
Or is the cost of the lawsuit prepaid by the State?
Yeah, no. You can choose to say no. A privacy banner has to give you a single click option to decline the use of your personal data and if you don't get that option, they're not complying to GDPR.
I systematically file complaints against unlawful privacy banners and with every popup that gets corrected I made the world a more privacy friendly place. It ain't much but it's an honest job.
It should have to be opt-in ☠️
Most things should be. Hell, one of Google's biggest public failures was building an opt-out social media network that let all sorts of people see who you've emailed lately.
Same... So tiring. Fighting to not be someone else's product just by existing
Where is the option?
In the app - Profile - Data & Privacy - Personalized Shopping
Sigh.. Not showing up for me. Is this affecting all regions?
I'm in Australia, not showing up for me.
Not showing on my page either. I wonder if this is only happening in the app and not the website.
https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/privacy/settings/recommendations
Thank you for this! They don't exactly make it easy to find.
Thank you. I'm honestly surprised this link is shareable and not some application generated garbage string.
I'm not sure how you found this:
'No matter where you live, you’ll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under “Data and Privacy.”'
edit: apparently it's in the app: https://lemmy.one/comment/13217994
Followed the link, the page I see does not have Personalized Shopping.