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My understanding from recent conversations I’ve had with people involved in civil rights advocacy groups is that FFTF was instrumental in making it politically necessary for the House to back away from the PATRIOT Act / FISA renewal. A lot of people are surprised at how well they played this.
ActBlue is a terrible offender for this - I can't easily donate to a campaign without getting emails from them for a long time even if I make sure to uncheck whatever boxes they show me.
Even worse they clearly give my email to others because I started getting more campaign emails from other unrelated candidates.
There's also some irony in doing this on a site about saving internet privacy.
I would like the option to opt-in and not opt-out WHEN I receive an email.
I think of advertisers who create their own adblockers