• Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned
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    You can completely opt out of the credit card spam ones with a simple sign up on a federal website, but I forget the exact one and am too lazy to hunt it down. Only lasts 5 years though

    Or you can do a full mail in thing for the lifetime one, might do that since I just hit my 5 year and started getting spam again

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        10 months ago

        I know nothing about this but top of my head it sounds like one of those self-policing things companies do to keep from being regulated. So they’ll honor it if you jump their hoops, but so few people even know the hoops are there it works out for said company to honor the few that do, and they will, to keep that regulation from ever appearing.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah, those are the details!

        It does actually work, and I assume it’s entirely because of what the other reply said

        Capitalism is shit, hopefully more people can learn about this because it IS nice, even more hopefully the law gets changed to end it