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During the Equifax debacle, I was so pissed that they tried to foist an arbitration agreement on their own victims that I offered to mass-mail opt-outs for peop
by paulgb 3y ago
During the Equifax debacle, I was so pissed that they tried to foist an arbitration agreement on their own victims that I offered to mass-mail opt-outs for people for free[1]. I ended up printing and mailing over 1,000 opt-outs, and they eventually backed down on the arbitration stuff (I don't take credit for that, there were a lot of others calling on them to).
If you're pissed enough, consider doing that :) The whole thing cost me probably about $50 in certified mail postage and domain registration but it was fun to stick it to them.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15207151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15207151
- PenguinCoder 3y agoSource code available, or really just an HTML form and manual work to achieve? Is it a simple enough to change from the Equifax details to roku and get that going?
- paulgb 3y agoIt really was just an HTML form plus a template that I could drop the results into that printed a bunch of opt-outs onto one page. I don't have the source any more but I think it took all of an hour to get it going. Mailing wasn't too time-consuming either because I sent them in batches.
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoYou're describing mass arbitration, which found precedent in a dispute with Uber [1]. Companies are responding by lumping together coördinated claims [2], at which point we're back to a simpler, cheaper class-action alternative. It's unclear if those clauses will hold. [1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/uber-loses-appeal-block-92-million-mass-arbitration-fees-2022-04-18/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/uber-loses-appeal-b... [2] https://arbitrate.com/the-business-response-to-the-rise-in-mass-arbitrations/ https://arbitrate.com/the-business-response-to-the-rise-in-m...
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