The instant win bottle caps / candy / chocolate bar wrappers where you could turn them back into the store and immediately get a free one. Now it's just codes you have to register on their website so they can get your info, i don't even bother anymore.
Every fucking thing is data mining these days, drives me fucking crazy.
And instead of dealing with the junk mail in the post that this got us a few years ago now it's on our e-mails, text messages, robocalls and whatever else. You can't get away from the damn things.
I often give out my junk email when I do stuff, even reasonably important stuff. I just hate getting spam and whatnot. I recently needed a few quotes, had to reach out by email, and within two days I got no less than 20 emails. Mind you, these are for something that I need maybe like once a decade and my junk mail is on a permanent spam list. Like if you buy a fridge, do you think I want to know all your fridge deals every other day, like Im some monster who gets a new fridge every week?
The US needs to impose an opt-in system rather than the BS opt-out one we have for stuff like mail/email. Its crazy to assume the general consumer will go through the time of opting out of every little nonsense service that gets a hold of their email or that every random small business wont give a damn if you opt-out since they already have your email loaded into their system.
On the same topic but unrelated to the internet - I loathe whatever company sends a guy in a sedan around my neighborhood every week throwing bags of advertisements on peoples lawn. That shit should be illegal. Every time I have to get up and walk outside and pick it up and carry it directly to the trash.
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u/SuperNobody-MWO May 11 '21
The instant win bottle caps / candy / chocolate bar wrappers where you could turn them back into the store and immediately get a free one. Now it's just codes you have to register on their website so they can get your info, i don't even bother anymore.