That point was back in 2014, according to this TechCrunch article. At some point, though, Slice Intelligence bought and added it to their broad portfolio of market research – read “information harvesting” – apps. They didn’t steal information or sell anything other than their service. It was, back then, perfectly safe to use. Back when hit the market, it was a small startup run by two people. Uber, apparently, bought data about users who have Lyft receipts in their inboxes, provided to them by Slive Intelligence, the company that owns. There’s just one problem: apparently, has been using their access to your email inbox to scrape data about you to sell to advertisers. I know I’ve had hundreds of mailing lists add me over the years, from downloading an ebook here or registering for a contest there. You can then go through and choose which ones to keep and bulk unsubscribe to the rest of the automatically.įor those of us with email addresses over 10 years old at this point, it’s a service with a lot of benefits. You give it access to your email inbox, and it goes through and identifies all of the email newsletters and mailing lists you’re subscribed to. is a service that many people have used over the years.
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