Mastodawn

Now I will detail what I meant by "malpractice." This morning, #MstdnCa sent out an #email using Mailjet, a third-party provider, asking for donations. Although the email has an one-click #unsubscribe header (by Mailjet), in the email body, the actual unsubscribe link (by Mailjet) is obscured using black text on black background; instead, the instance admin says to delete your account to unsubscribe. This is extremely deceptive and I consider this a severe breach of trust. #mastoadmin

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Austin Huang ❤️Dec 18, 2023

I believe such practice likely contravenes anti-spam laws (https://fightspam.gc.ca) as this is clearly intentional. (It's also questionable whether deleting your account actually removes yourself from the mailing list.) Also, in their privacy policy, it's unclear whether "information" contains fundraising messages (including those for instance operation), but even if it is permitted, it raises doubts over the owner's ability to properly handle personal data for their purposes.

Canada's anti-spam legislation

Canada's anti-spam legislation - Homepage

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Trisha Lynn 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 🇨🇦Dec 18, 2023

@austin I pretty much think you're right and this contravenes what one is supposed to do regarding opting out of newsletter stuff. Shame on y'all, #MstdnCA.

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