> How are these kinds of practices still legal? In the EU they are not, and as someone who has been using a custom email address for almost every service for t

> How are these kinds of practices still legal? In the EU they are not, and as someone who has been using a custom email address for almost every service for the last 15 years or so, I have noticed that this almost doesn't happen anymore. The only cases where an email address receives spam anymore is after breaches, or very old addresses that have been sold more than 10 years ago.