> I'm sure that checkbox popped up sometime after I created the account and was conveniently set to "true" by default.
Someone got paid to sell you out and cashed their check on your privacy. I wonder if they have a gdpr contact and what it would look like if you forwarded this and told them you did not consent to it.
GDPR doesn't handle sending marketing mails and even in the EU it is entirely fine to send those by default as long as they directly related to your product ("assumed consent of consumer" is the key word here). Firefox does offer a complete opt-out last I checked that works entirely fine (never received a mail after unsubscribing to marketing mails)
Someone got paid to sell you out and cashed their check on your privacy. I wonder if they have a gdpr contact and what it would look like if you forwarded this and told them you did not consent to it.