Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam

Re:Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username e... by 0xjmp on Monday August 15, 2022 @08:05PM (#32477440)

Buying a house. Lender immediately sold my email and phone number and I’ve been getting about a dozen aggressive sales messages a day. But hey, maybe it’s just a few bad apples.

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Re:Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username e... by hbosch on Monday August 15, 2022 @08:12PM (#32477499)

Phone, physical mail, e-mail too. Buying a house probably netted me more spam than anything I've ever signed up for online.

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Re:Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username e... by matthew1471 on Monday August 22, 2022 @01:20PM (#32554429)

They call this “Life event marketing” - one of the companies posting physical mail to me declared the name of the company that they got my details from so I could then contact them and ask them to take me off the list.

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