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> I guess the only way to protect my privacy in this case is to risk going to the physical store Never give them your phone number. They suckered me, and it to
by _jal 5y ago
> I guess the only way to protect my privacy in this case is to risk going to the physical store
Never give them your phone number. They suckered me, and it took multiple calls to a very slow call center to get the text messages to stop. And I couldn't get them to just delete it - it had to be done as a number change. So my number is now 415.555.1212.
- dinvlad 5y agoOh don't get me started on that! I already gave, and regretted it ever since. There's no way to stop those messages now. I even called them and they stopped for a while, and are now back in full force, right after my recent order. Incidentally, I've even discovered what seems to be one of (probably many) security issues on it (one where you could see other person's order details without authentication, in this case for myself), but I'm not gonna report it because they likely don't even have a bounty program and it was likely a "feature" implemented intentionally.
- Ansil849 5y ago> Never give them your phone number. Give them Jenny's number: (your local area code) 867-5309 It works way more often than you'd think, and if no one has yet made a store loyalty account with the number, you can be the first and add to the movement :). Use this trick whenever you need a loyalty card to get a store discount.
- dinvlad 5y agoAll jokes aside, this would obviously divulge order details and/or control to whomever owns that number :-) Easier to just block the damn number.
- Ansil849 5y agoThe use case I'm thinking of is when buying random sundries at the store, not ordering sensitive items.
- dinvlad 5y agoAh makes sense then! And would be pretty fun.
- Ansil849 5y agoI've just compulsively been doing it any time I get anything from a store with a loyalty card, which is all of them now, and not once out of a dozen different local stores did I need to create the account--someone always already had :). This I think is a great way to protest against retail surveillance.