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A comment on Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, Instant Checkmate, etc?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by compuguy on Monday March 06, 2017 @03:10PM (#13805648)
Dell is pretty bad. I get every month three (when one is more than enough) catalogs to my address, because of slight variances in my name, even though they are all the same person.
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Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by notwhoyouthink on Monday March 06, 2017 @03:52PM (#13805957)
We get four catalogs a month to three different people, one of which gets two catalogs; one addressed to their role as Vice President, and one as Boardmember.

We don't even want _one_ of them. It's not like we're going to see a new printer in a catalog and say "hey, sounds like a great buy!"

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Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by TheSpiceIsLife on Monday March 06, 2017 @08:59PM (#13807746)
Maybe the solution is to sign up about 3000 people at every address you've ever lived at, if all of us sign up for hardcopy catalogues everywhere under every variant of our own names and fictitious names maybe they'll eventually stop or go out if business.
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Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by cmdrfred on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @08:47AM (#13810239)
Why bother yourself or the new residents of your home? Sign up any Dell related outfits (resellers, etc) for them instead.
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