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Thomas 🔭✨ (@[email protected]) 23andMe just sent out an email trying to trick customers into accepting a TOS change that will prevent you from suing them after they literally lost your genome (hachyderm.io)

submitted 10 months ago by PoseidonsWake to c/technology

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23andMe just sent out an email trying to trick customers into accepting a TOS change that will prevent you from suing them after they literally lost your genome ro thieves.

Do what it says in the email and email [email protected] that you do not agree with the new terms of service and opt out of arbitration.

If you have an account with them, do this right now.

Here’s an email template for what to write: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94164861

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

/s and still at -6. Wow, Lemmy. I'm hoping the joke just went overhead.

[–] Duamerthrax 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apparently my comment making fun of white supremacists wasn't taken well by the mods.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Either it went over people's heads or hit too close to home. I dunno.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Maybe the joke just wasn't funny

[–] straypet 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

What joke? Jokes are supposed to at least try to be funny.

[–] Duamerthrax 2 points 10 months ago

It was just another cynical explanation for the type of person to get a vanity dna test. Do people not realize that racial supremacists are getting these test and bragging if they like the results?