Scraping data, email lists, unsolicited diapers.

Before every show, everyone gets an email advertising attendance lists for sale. Before EVERY show. And the first time you see this email, you are indignant - OMG, how CAN GAMA or UKGE or GenCon or the National Food and Drink Show or that theatre SELL MY DATA!!!!! HOW DARE THEY!

This is why we have a data protection act, right? To stop weasel guys like me sending you unsolicited emails about events that you might want to attend.

So every website I now click on makes me fill in some waiver to give them the right to scrape my data - which they do automatically, without even thinking. Scraping data is an autonomic function for the internet, because it wants to sell you Wish dot com adult diapers. And ironically - GDPR - hasn't stopped it doing that.

Because the real scammers were there all along. Either they are criminals, who don't give a shit about rules, or they had you sign a waiver so they can scam you legitimately, send you just the right flavoured brand of clickbait to get you angry about immigrants or whatever.

So no, UKGE are not making a sideline hustle of selling your data on the darkweb. All; that GDPR achieved was to reduce the SIGNAL - it did little to reduce the noise. Because the real scammers were all the disruptor friends you made along the way. And the irony of getting indignant about the possibility of data scrape and posting it ON social media seems lost on the people who are posting about it today.

Yeah buddy. How do you think Wish knew about your diaper fetish? Oh, wait - no - the algorithm is so OBVIOUSLY shit that you can't see the real algorithm working behind the scenes steering your vote towards whoever will ultimately roll over and let the technocracy tickle its tummy.

Until then its wall to wall adult diapers, scammers and outrage all around. And not an off world colony in sight.