Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
&gt; This transaction breaks a core promise using the internet: just because I visit a website doesn’t mean I consent to getting spam from it.<p>No it doesn&#x27;t. There is no core privacy premise of the internet, and certainly not one that everybody used it signed up for.<p>I&#x27;m not condoning this behavior, but we&#x27;re in territory that we don&#x27;t have prior art for. It used to be totally fine for one shopkeeper to mention to another that he saw a customer looking for a particular item. When you do it at scale, the old rules don&#x27;t apply.<p>If you think it&#x27;s spam, hit the spam button in gmail and get rid of it. Use an adblocker. Talk to your congressman about data privacy and sharing laws, because we don&#x27;t have anything that&#x27;s effective. Frankly, continue to write Medium posts, because it raises awareness :) But, I disagree with the notion that this is a solved problem with bad actors, because we&#x27;re in unknown waters.