We need to develop an understanding of privacy that does not prioritize staying off the email lists of activist groups but staying off social and anti-social communications platforms (and email providers) that sell every spec of data about you for profit and government favor. Nobody should be allowed to add you to any email list without your clearly expressed intention to join it. But you should express that intention more, and tolerate less having your screen filled with advertisements for something you happened to just mention aloud in your living room.
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