so what you could opt-out? your info was/is still in any phonebook from before you opted out. any well-prepared organisation, which these modern data-collection

so what you could opt-out? your info was/is still in any phonebook from before you opted out. any well-prepared organisation, which these modern data-collection firms are, would have no problem whatsoever keeping every edition of the phonebook for this purpose. yeah the discrepancy is that its harder now. phonebooks were essentially free and had people's addresses in them