FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Yes. Yes it is.

Then thoe same companies make it nigh impossible to opt out of their newsletters as well, which....yeah, whole other issue right there. Tell me why I should leap through a dozen hoops with a ball on my nose, doing a backflip in a tutu and wearing pom poms to even have a hope of finding the unsubscribe link to a newsletter, then have to do that all over again, while on hold with a customer support rep, change out my tutu for a Tinkerbell costume, flap the wings five times, dance the Macarena on one leg...and only then I /might/ get taken off the newsletter however.

Yes. That's the levels of hoop leaping I had to go through on my last one. Not literally, but that's about the level of hassle I had to go through. And after all that. I still kept getting newsletters. So what was the point of going through all that hassle?

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 05:35:58PM +0000, Linux for blind general discussion wrote
> Forgot to mention, but yeah, it's annoying how many services insist on
> using a person's e-mail address or phone number as a unique
> identifier... its one thing if they have legitimate reason to contact
> you outside of their platform, but there's plenty that would function
> just fine knowing nothing about me beyond my username and password...
> and trying to force you to create an account just to use your computer
> just sounds ridiculous... on the flip side, I find it annoying how
> many e-mail newsletters ask for more than just my e-mail address when
> signing up. Is it too much to ask that web forms be both properly
> formatted and that they only collect essential information?
> 
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