Spam, bots (protonmail), third party app and more

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

A Shopify merchant expresses frustration over multiple platform limitations and security concerns:

Core Issues:

  • Suspects a business model where bot creators also sell anti-bot apps, questioning Shopify’s role in bot protection despite high monthly fees
  • Criticizes reliance on third-party apps for basic features like automated post-purchase review emails

Privacy & Security Concerns:

  • Questions how third-party apps and “Shopify partners” obtain customer email addresses
  • Reports receiving daily spam emails with nonsensical content and unsubscribe links despite never subscribing
  • Worries about third-party apps accessing and potentially selling customer data

Performance Trade-offs:

  • Notes the irony that Shopify recommends limiting app usage for better store performance, yet requires apps for essential functions

Overall Sentiment:
The merchant feels Shopify’s premium pricing should include built-in bot protection and basic automation features, rather than forcing reliance on third-party solutions that may compromise customer privacy and store performance. The discussion remains open with no resolution provided.

Summarized with AI on November 16. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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What is a good business idea? First make the bots and attact Shopify stores create lots of abandoned checkouts, then create the paid app to keep them away. What does Shopify do for this? I have contacted Shopify for several issues or questions how do things.

  • Example how create automated email for customers after their purchase to get product reviews. Answer is use third party app. What?? you want i install app for everything? I pay high price eatch month for the service what should include protection of bots and other security issues. And remember people. What the third party apps get from your store? They can get all your customer data and use them or sell? How i can protect my customers privacy when there is clearly issue with security? I am so confuse they are so money greedy that things make no sence.

Plus after all that you wonder why your store performance is poor? Try not use so much apps they say. What a joke

And where all these third party “shopify partners” or marketing gurus or gods get my EMAIL address that they spam my email every day with the non sence and end of the email is click here to unsubscribe. Really i have not even subscribed for the emails!

All this i need to pay.

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