I can’t find any articles or posts talking about this anywhere, so I just wanted to share a post about it. I received an email on July 2 from Afterpay about an upcoming change to the privacy policy which will take affect on August 1, 2024. I used a website to compare the text of the old policy with the text of the new, and found that they are now introducing targeted advertising. They harvest personal information about you and share them with third-parties and partners in order to serve you with personalized ads within the Afterpay app. They track information such as your spending habits and how you interact with their marketing messages, and they now also combine all of your personal information they have collected about you to profile you, they also get information about you from third-parties. Quoted from the updated policy:
Information from third parties about you, such as identity, preferences and inferences about you…
Just wanted to share this, since I can’t find any discussion of it online. Here’s a link to the policies if you want to check it out. These are Wayback Machine links.
They track information such as your spending habits and how you interact with their marketing messages, and they now also combine all of your personal information they have collected about you to profile you, they also get information about you from third-parties. Quoted from the updated policy: Information from third parties about you, such as identity, preferences and inferences about you…
Man I’m getting crazy strong WD vibes with this one. I can just recommend not using that service anymore. You can mitigate third party tracking but if such an invasive service has something to do with your ID or banking info, it is very bad for privacy no matter what you do.
No I’m referring to Watch Dogs that is a video game franchise by Ubisoft. I knew people here would misunderstand. Sorry for that.
Ah, apologies. Yeah, I know what Watch Dogs is, it just didn’t come to mind. Knowing Ubisoft, I don’t even need to look at their privacy policy to know that you’re probably signing away your soul with them.
Are you at all shocked that what is effectively a payday loan operator wants more info about you to sell ads encouraging you to buy things?