Saturday, September 16, 2017

FashionNova sending Facebook Messages without even asking

I was looking for jeans and found one I liked on FashionNova. I added it to my cart to save for later and closed the tab. 

Around an hour later, I decide to go on Facebook and noticed I got a message. It was from FashionNova. I do not recall giving away my email address to the website, so how is it that they found me on Facebook? And they even sent me a link to my shopping cart with the item I added.

Their privacy policy includes collecting basically all of the information that can be found on your browser, such as all of the sites you've been to before and whether or not you are actually looking at the FashionNova website.

I feel like a fashion brand website shouldn't be collecting so much information about their users, even if it's solely for advertisement and their business. Seeing "Don't forget this..." on the FashionNova tab when I am on another tab is unsettling, and I wonder if they also have access to what I am typing.

Update: looking back on this, it's scary how much information Google Chrome itself is giving to other websites. 

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