So on the US side of things (EU is better): You're going to need a hell of a lot of freetime to do all that. I think it's a fucking travesty how quickly socie

So on the US side of things (EU is better): You're going to need a hell of a lot of freetime to do all that. I think it's a fucking travesty how quickly society rolled over on privacy and tracking because a bunch of short sighted people think its ok for companies to buy and sell your data, but it's such a common practice, and it's not like ANY of the above things are going to change shit. To be blunt: 1) This going to be AFTER a daisy chain of emails/calls/both to get to ANYONE who feels like giving you an answer, and it's basically going to boil down to "oh its part of the TOS. Sue us or fuck off". The TOS is likely bullshit, but I hope you've got millions to prove it. 2) Again, even getting to this point takes a dizzying amount of time, and for what? To know they're greedy fucks selling your data to the highest bidder? You knew that the moment you got spam. 3) Uh huh. The kind of people who care already know. My experience with informing others about this has mostly been "so what". I spent waaay to long convincing people who HATE the current administration (from literally either side) that maybe it's not so great that amazon/facebook/etc knows damn near every single thing about them if they're one government request away from having it the hands of the people they despise. It's preaching to the choir at best. 4) Or you can just give out a junk account to start with and let them send as much spam as they want. If you really want to actually hurt them you should probably write a small script to hit a vpn, then open the email, then delete it (as clickthrough metrics are what they're looking at). As for what "naysayers" want, well i can only speak for myself, and it's "real legal options". I think a lot of this is "security theater" with the amount of fingerprinting and other nonsense going on. You can spend all day trying to be the invisible man on the net and still have MORE than enough known about you because a friend or family member can't be bothered to care.