Tractor related spam email?

[John_Mc]

Does TBN rent or sell its email list?

Lately, I've been getting inundated with tractor-related spam email. I'm not sure what touched off this recent wave. Just thought I'd ask.

 

[Muhammad]

No we don't sell or rent our list. They must have found you some other way.

 

[John_Mc]

Thanks. I figured that was the case, but thought I’d ask.

 

[Tinhack]

I'm getting emils on a different topic. I had been using Windows built-in handler and it had no way to handle junk mail. At least that worked. I switched to Thunderbird. I still get the emails but they're easier to handle now--They never make it to my Inbox view. And whatever you do, DO NOT click on the Unsubscribe link that's typically included in the email. All that does is confirm an active email account. I did that once and got a "page not found" error.

 

[/pine]

No we don't sell or rent our list. They must have found you some other way.

Are you intimately familiar with EVERYTHING the third party scripts running on this site are doing??

 

[Muhammad]

Are you intimately familiar with EVERYTHING the third party scripts running on this site are doing??

Well they are certainly not accessing our user database to get email addresses.

 

[/pine]

Well they are certainly not accessing our user database to get email addresses.

some scripts are capable of doing so...

 

[/pine]

some scripts are capable of doing so...

Correction...the scripts don't hack the database...the scripts can use cookies etc to retrieve data from a users browser...i.e, especially if they keep log in etc data in a manager etc..but it is still third party scripts running on sites that do this...

 

[/pine]

PSA

Block all third party cookies...!!

 

[Muhammad]

Correction...the scripts don't hack the database...the scripts can use cookies etc to retrieve data from a users browser...i.e, especially if they keep log in etc data in a manager etc..but it is still third party scripts running on sites that do this...

That's outside of what our standard networks would do as taking data out of a browser (stored) without consent violates data protection laws that the networks are otherwise bound by. So if you are able to prove this we can take it to a data protection agency. Personally I don't block any of our cookies and haven't had any issues.

 

[/pine]

Rules are broken all the time...I never implied anything was just stating possibilities...it does happen even on top tier networks...

There is a lot of "fine print" in browser user agreements...by default many are set to allow third party cookies...

A lot of people just don't care but a lot do care and are concerned about privacy...some would freak out if they could see all the personal information different sites collect...social media is at the top of the list but news sites both private and mainstream are the worst...

Again...I never implied anything or made any accusations...pointing out things directly in response to the title...

 

[Muhammad]

Third party cookies have changed the internet a lot, for the worse. Maybe we will return to world without them, but who knows.