Comment by dwedge
5 hours ago
What kind of independent journalism is this? Admittedly I only read the first half but it's just a load of advertising for AI companies based on LinkedIn posts with no fact checking. One of them is aiming for $10MM ARR. What's their current ARR? No mention. Did they really spend that much? Who knows.
I subscribed to 404media a couple of months ago and they added me to all of their newsletters. They were all definitely unticked/opted out but they added me anyway. I reported it to them, no reply, so I unsubscribed from the newsletters and they kept sending me podcast emails anyway. I cancelled totally based on that and wondered if it was too quick a decision but this article has convinced me.
404Media are basically just anti-tech-industry activists. Their reporting has a clear agenda; they hate tech companies, "tech bros", silicon valley, capitalism, and especially AI.
That's not to say that tech companies aren't doing legitimately bad things sometimes. But 404media has no desire for nuance.
Ignoring consent is exactly the kind of thing the industry they hate would do.