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For me, it's political texts from Illinois, which I moved away from 6 years ago. They seem to be doing this thing where you can unsubscribe from a given campaig

For me, it's political texts from Illinois, which I moved away from 6 years ago. They seem to be doing this thing where you can unsubscribe from a given campaign, but when some other politician wants to do a campaign they will acquire that list without scrubbing the optouts. I was led to believe that this is technically allowed so I've been using an app (buzzkill) to junk any text containing the name of a politician.

RajT88 3y ago
Unsurprisingly, lawmakers make laws which excerpt them from obnoxious behavior which is not allowed for non-lawmakers. It's funny though - I live in IL as well, and don't get many political texts. What I do get matches the ratio of political spam I get across all of my various email accounts: It's 90% one party, and 10% or less the other. A fair amount of it doesn't mention party affiliation, and tries to copy the color scheme and design of the other state party even on their websites (which is pretty brazen). FWIW: I'm not registered with any party at any level and have never signed up for any political newsletter AFAIK.