[morkalork]

Instacart users should be upset about their data being packaged up and sold. Or maybe there should be half-decent privacy laws that protect them. Otherwise you just get this corporate-orwellianism.

Anyways, I wonder if instacart can predict political affiliation. I bet their data scientists have at least tried.

[LocalH]

People will quite literally sell their first-born for convenience.

[dzonga]

it's under terms and conditions.

Instacart is now an ad-company. so as almost every company now.

ads are just too lucrative to pass up on if you sit on some rich data.

[Grombobulous]

Half decent data privacy laws are wildly overdue.

My other thought is that companies like Papa John’s that make shitty products are most likely to engage in desperate growth tactics like this.

You know what helps tempt people into ordering pizza? Making good pizza.

The problem is that it’s cheaper to purchase analytics and serve an ad for “pizza” at the literal moment the viewer is out of groceries.

I wonder if their fancy analytics can also tell them how many of these customers regret not just buying groceries after they finish their Papa John’s.

[autoexec]

> Instacart users should be upset about their data being packaged up and sold.

Instacart users should have been upset about that while reading Instacart's privacy policy prior to signing up and refused to use the service in the first place. Having their data being packaged up and sold was something every user already agreed to.

[morkalork]

I believe we're at the point where living in modern society and dodging these abusive EULAs is nigh impossible.

Your credit card company, every merchant you interact with, even your employer's payroll processor all sell your data.

I guess if you work under the table cash-only jobs, only purchase items in-person, again cash only, and don't use any apps on your phone you are safe from corporate snooping?

[autoexec]

> I believe we're at the point where living in modern society and dodging these abusive EULAs is nigh impossible.

You're not wrong but I can't help but wonder if we'd be at this at the point in modern society now if we'd been smart enough to avoid signing up for services that promised up front to be abusive long before the practice was so widespread and unavoidable. Instacart started 14 years ago. It wasn't an essential or unavoidable service. Why should corporations treat us any differently if we keep telling them that this abuse is acceptable to us and then reward them for it?