To Whom It May Concern:
My name is [name], and my 23andMe account is under the email [email]. I am writing to declare that I do not agree to the new terms of service at https://www.23andme.com/legal/terms-of-service/.
WTF. This is outrageous. And I had find that email in my spam after I read this comment. Hope this POS company goes down in flames after this.
With the benefit of hindsight, the invention of SPAM should have told us all we needed to know about the future of the internet. A small percentage of users will do their damnedest to ruin it for everyone else. It's a sign that people cannot be trusted to not use the tech for evil. I'm sure it foretold the corruption of social media as well. It is all SPAM's fault!
Some companies require that. Here is PayPal's process for example: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/useragreement-full#table-...
Hopefully our court system will get some more teeth vs other corporations soon.
But I don't see how drunken anarchist tactics help, and that noise seems like it would be a counterproductive diversion.
this is probably why the unsubscribe links require some interactive confirmation so that simply loading the page doesn't actually unsubscribe.
if this was doable, i'd put them above Troy Hunt in contributions to humankind ;-)
I also set my future status to auto opt-out.
“I opt out of the updated terms and will stick to the current in place ones indefinitely, including any future changes. I declare myself immune from having to do anything like this again in the future and set my status to auto-opt-out.”
DNA driven targeted advertising that finds only the most docile consumers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology
Never underestimate the willingness to engage in the days new "not-yet-clearly-identified-as-quackery-pseudo science" when there is a buck to be made.
That's about blue/brown, and realistically, there are a bunch of other genes which also have effects, as "eye color" is really a collection of phenotypes, not just a single one.
I forgot my password and did a password reset. They have password requirement of 12 characters minimum. A bunch of security theater just to get hacked anyways
Failing to secure user data and then overcompensate on user side is a security theatre. It's like having complicated lock on a cardboard box.
One hack does not imply cardboard box. A history of hacks or bad security practices does, and it’s not clear yet that applies to 23andMe.
> 30 Day Right to Opt-Out. You have the right to opt-out and not be bound by the arbitration and class action waiver provisions set forth above by sending written notice of your decision to opt-out by emailing us at arbitrationoptout@23andme.com. The notice must be sent within thirty (30) days of your first use of the Service, or the effective date of the first set of Terms containing an Arbitration and Class Action and Class Arbitration Waiver section otherwise you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of those sections. If you opt out of these arbitration provisions, we also will not be bound by them.