beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agoUS says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’www.wyden.senate.govexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1146arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1142arrow-down1external-linkUS says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’www.wyden.senate.govbeep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agomessage-square23fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareFooBarrington@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoOTOH, it seems like ~44% of junk mail gets thrown away without ever being opened: https://zerojunkmail.org/environmental-impact That’s a bunch of environmental destruction and personal annoyances caused, so the label “cancer” seems fair to me.
minus-squareBrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoIf they try to deceive me by making the outside look handwritten or using wording like “FINAL NOTICE” then yeah, straight in the trash without a 2nd look. If it’s obviously an ad from the get go I’ll usually give it a skim at least.
OTOH, it seems like ~44% of junk mail gets thrown away without ever being opened: https://zerojunkmail.org/environmental-impact
That’s a bunch of environmental destruction and personal annoyances caused, so the label “cancer” seems fair to me.
If they try to deceive me by making the outside look handwritten or using wording like “FINAL NOTICE” then yeah, straight in the trash without a 2nd look. If it’s obviously an ad from the get go I’ll usually give it a skim at least.