Comment by WoodenChair
2 months ago
I used the form on the author of the book's website a few weeks ago to invite her on our books podcast:
She didn't respond, which is fair enough, it's probably not big enough to be interesting to her. But then I got auto-added to her PR mailing list. I didn't ask or consent to be on the PR mailing list (all the page says as of now is "To contact Sarah, please complete the form below"). Seems I was just added because I used the "contact" form.
Auto-adding someone who contacts you to a PR mailing list is a dark pattern. Seems she learned something at Facebook. I found it ironic.
She certainly didn't code that contact form. Still an oversight from her, but...
But what? It’s her website and is ultimately responsible. “I didn’t code it” is not an excuse.
Do you assume full responsability for all the dependencies of all the software you write and use?
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