fyi, yahoo users (thanks again, Marcus!)
Mar. 29th, 2002 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottobearYahoo! masters of unethical marketing, have, due to 'changes with their system', reset your preferences so that you will receive every bit of marketing they send out. Go into every Yahoo! account you own, click 'account info' and set them all back to no.
This should be illegal. We need laws that will go further than that. We should have control over our own information, and corporations should be required to wipe their databases everytime they change their terms of agreement, or honor the terms of the older agreements. I'm tired of corporations taking my personal information with promises that they will never sell it and then unilaterally changing their minds. For that matter, all marketing materials should be opt-in in the first place. bah!
This should be illegal. We need laws that will go further than that. We should have control over our own information, and corporations should be required to wipe their databases everytime they change their terms of agreement, or honor the terms of the older agreements. I'm tired of corporations taking my personal information with promises that they will never sell it and then unilaterally changing their minds. For that matter, all marketing materials should be opt-in in the first place. bah!
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Date: 2002-03-29 05:27 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-03-29 05:28 pm (UTC)I need to find one that does free pop!
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Date: 2002-03-29 05:46 pm (UTC)Free with very little advertising, and what advertising that does come in is clearly labeled as such (allowing automagic redirection to my spam box with no further ado). No advertising blurbs are attached to outgoing email.
Now that yahoo's being a beyotch, I will probably get a second account with softhome for my "real name" address :)
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Date: 2002-03-29 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2002-03-29 06:21 pm (UTC)Wondering now if I shouldn't have stuck to the more socially-acceptable/professional-looking first-initial_last-name combo. Ah, well :)
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Date: 2002-03-29 06:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-03-29 06:25 pm (UTC)I like how it says "Okay!" when you sign up. I got the image of darktrain working in the softhome processing office ;)
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Date: 2002-03-29 06:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-03-30 11:33 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-03-30 11:34 am (UTC)those rat-bastards!