There may be a steep privacy cost if you park here

Re:There may be a steep privacy cost if you park here by hyperman1 on Sunday November 14, 2021 @02:30PM (#29219854)

For companies doing this, I tend to give them the phone number of their own service desk.

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Re:There may be a steep privacy cost if you park here by mixmastamyk on Sunday November 14, 2021 @02:43PM (#29219961)

Better to stop doing business, or they’ll never learn.

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Re:There may be a steep privacy cost if you park here by chillwaves on Sunday November 14, 2021 @02:48PM (#29219996)

On a related? note, local area code + 867-5309 seems to work for most store discount cards.

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Re:There may be a steep privacy cost if you park here by _fool on Sunday November 14, 2021 @06:02PM (#29221605)

Safeway no longer accepts that number at least in the 503 area code, I found out upon trying as was my custom, a few years ago. The cashier recognized it and laughed with me as she scanned her own card which they keep on hand precisely for these reasons, as I understand it.

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Re:There may be a steep privacy cost if you park here by chillwaves on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @11:48AM (#29255444)

Actually, I did have trouble at Safeway with this recently but the cashier kindly gave me a card that scans -- very nice because it has none of my information associated with it.

Related, but when I am forced to read the number instead of just typing it in, I consciously say "Eight Six Seven Five Three Zero Nine" instead of "Oh"!

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Re:There may be a steep privacy cost if you park here by bitbang on Sunday November 14, 2021 @02:53PM (#29220045)

When they ask for email address, I give them [email protected]

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