Outlook got updated on my iPhone last night and now they want me to agree to having my data shared with 807 partners.

Important note: I don’t use outlook as my primary email provider. I use Proton with a custom domain but I keep outlook for some old emails.

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    4 months ago

    Ridiculous. How can someone write “we value your privacy” and then share data with 807 partners. If I share anything with 8 people I pretty much consider it public information already, unless I have a very good reason to trust them. Sharing something with 807 companies is probably less private than taking all that data, putting it up on a billboard, and placing that billboard next to the busiest place in town.

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    It’s not that they now changed something with data collection and sharing within the update. They always did it, all services free of charge do it and most that cost money likely take the extra money as well.

    It’s now that they tell you in a short and informative way (1st sentence) and ask for your consent.

    What’s really infuriating, are websites and services that have an “Accept All” button but no “Reject All”. Instead you have to manage individually and sometimes I have to flip 30 separate buttons to disable data sharing, where they even call advertisers a ‘necessary 3rd party’ requiring interaction on top.

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      I always flip the 30 buttons and then accidentally click Accept All because it’s in the place that I would expect the Confirm My Choices button to be and I am tired of looking at all the buttons and don’t read the most important one. I always tell myself I’ll slow down next time, but I’m just trying to get to the stupid website to read whatever stupid link I clicked on so I’m impatient every time.

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      I love so many things that EU has done especially with GDPR But then they come up with this crap and you wonder what they were thinking

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        They were thinking that those caps were among the top items found littering beaches. So they put forward this measure to attempt to curb that issue.

        Nobody should be buying single use bottles anyway if there are alternatives available. Maybe that’s the quiet part - making them less attractive to consumers

        Drinking from a can only works from one side, so I guess think of it that way.

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          But are they though? Personally i see many bottles littered and even more lids from cups. Actually why are straws replaced with paper but the lids are still plastic? And why not ban plastic bottles alltogether like they’ve done with so many other things?

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            I don’t know, it’s what they said. Maybe bottles are easier to clean up. They said “among” the most frequent items, so perhaps you’re right that those other things are worse, but there haven’t been reasonable alternatives suggested

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        4 months ago

        I think the intend here is pretty obvious? I also think the reaction over it is kinda overblown.

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        Do you actually wonder?

        Those caps get lost way less and since the bottles themselves usually get recycled now the caps also stay in the cycle.

        And it took me like 5 bottles to get used to it.
        Even a slow learner should get it sooner or later.

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        You are right. How do they still allow plastic bottles ? That’s a huge waste of ressources.

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          It actually is part of my point… i dont understand why they need to over complicate things