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Re:FTC Announces "Click-to-Cancel" Rule Making It Easier to ... by mattgreenrocks on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @02:53PM (#41862481)
You know a startup is floundering when they have to invent new email lists to "accidentally" subscribe you to despite telling them in the past you want to be unsubscribed from everything.
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Re:FTC Announces "Click-to-Cancel" Rule Making It Easier to ... by thayne on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @03:10PM (#41862674)
It isn't just startups. Huge tech giants do it too.
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Re:FTC Announces "Click-to-Cancel" Rule Making It Easier to ... by zmgsabst on Thursday October 17, 2024 @02:43AM (#41867023)
Fidelity did that to me last week, after I’d closed my account with them two weeks prior.

I had to call them (!) since they didn’t even include an unsubscribe option as I was a customer (!!) and have the CSR delete my email address from their records — because apparently this happens routinely.

Companies routinely break the law in small ways at scale — and they should get the RICO hammer dropped on them for doing so.

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