What the actual fuck The Verge?! You have over 500 partners who need access to my "essential" cookies?

I mean, thanks for showing me the numbers on how insane data sharing is, but really? And those are the ones I can't opt out of?

Do they count like every employee as a partner, or is my data really being shared with hundreds of other businesses?

@alice

#Cookies #Data #DataPrivacy #DataBrokers #OptOut

@alice_watson @alice β€žIt might not be essential for you to share your data with our partners, but it’s essential to our business model.β€œ πŸ˜‰

This is so wrong. Ads are annoying, but selling ads should be the end of it. Selling your actual readers is several steps too far. Problem is, they have to make money some way, and the old β€žsell a billboard in the webβ€œ seems not to be sufficient anymore. 😒