this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2026
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Malicious Compliance

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People conforming to the letter, but not the spirit, of a request. For now, this includes text posts, images, videos and links. Please ensure that the “malicious compliance” aspect is apparent - if you’re making a text post, be sure to explain this part; if it’s an image/video/link, use the “Body” field to elaborate.

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago

Google doesn’t sell anything to advertisers, that would be mega dumb.

Yes you are right, they don't give direct access to the data. But they are reading the emails and selling your data in aggregate. Advertisers need only jump a few hoops to take Google's aggregated advertising data and combine it with other data sources to personally identify you.