Post #2850532

2026-05-25 10:42 UTC

GoFundMe.com has been driving me up the wall. I must have donated as a guest, but to unsubscribe from a campaign&#39;s further pleading emails, you have to have an account to be able to change notification preferences. I refuse to become more deeply connected to a system only to extricate myself from it. It took a lot of scouting around the website to find a privacy center where I could submit my email and ask to be deleted. At least next time I donate via GoFundMe, I&#39;ll know how to get back out.

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@sarajw@front-end.social 2026-05-25 10:46

This is where GDPR helps. The privacy system asks what country you're in, presumably to figure out whether they have to honour my request or not. I realise this annoyance is nothing compared to the people needing help, who are using these services. As such, I'm glad they exist, and I know they need to find themselves too somehow. Ugh just ugh let me donate without having yet another account or ghost account created. We should be making this easy.

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@johnnydecimal@hachyderm.io 2026-05-25 11:15

@sarajw@front-end.social I know you shouldn't have to, but this is why I've been really, really enjoying moving over to email-address-per-service handled by Fastmail and 1Password. I haven't had to yet, but it's lovely to know that I can just turn off any address if someone starts to annoy me.

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