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Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List

3 pointsby pquernaalmost 4 years ago

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CRConradalmost 4 years ago
Somewhat OT, but here goes anyway: This perfectly illustrates the downside of the casual way English just stacks a bunch of nouns on top of each other without bothering to tell how they relate to each other. Is this a &quot;(Big Ass) ((Data Broker) (Opt-Out List))&quot; or a &quot;((Big Ass) (Data Broker)) (Opt-Out List)&quot; -- a big list of opt-outs, or a list of opt-outs from big data brokers?<p>You can criticise French for a lot of things, but at least its &quot;the this de la that du the other de la...&quot; style is a lot less ambiguous: It&#x27;s either a List of the Big Ass of the Opt-Out of the Data Brokers, or a List of the Opt-Out of the Data Brokers of the Big Ass, but either way, you know for sure which it is.