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I have to point out that while their marketing copy claims that they want to know "as little as possible" about their customers, they have Segment's JavaScript tag on thehelm.com

Do you know what Segment does? It makes it easy to send data anywhere -> https://segment.com/catalog

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Also, no actual content appears on the page without allowing third-party JavaScript. Even though I'm interested in hearing about new mail services, I chose to close the tab rather than spend time figuring out which of the 17 third-party domains I should white-list in order to see some text.

I doubt I'm the only one who made this choice. For some of us, content is still the reason we use a web browser; that includes those of us who value privacy and minimising the amount of arbitrary code we run on our devices.

The site is also completely unsuable without JS enabled.

Apps market? Piwik (tracking)? Why would I allow these?

https://i.imgur.com/OFWYnWy.png

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