Comment by joelthelion
12 days ago
It might not have a great impact, but I've started to fight back. Interrupt me in the middle of an important task? You get a 1-star rating. Ask me for some random information you shouldn't need? Get bogus answers. And so on.
> Ask me for some random information you shouldn't need? Get bogus answers.
I've never understood software that's free but you have to fill out a form of personal information to download it. Even if I was willing to share, what possible use is my full mailing address to some random software company? It's data collection for the sake of data collection.
Oh, that's valuable, they definitely can sell that on. Especially if they have a big list.
But what percentage of the physical bricks-and-mortar addresses are actually disused telephone exchanges or retired public toilets?
(whistles innocently)
There's an oxygen waster whose salary is conditional on bringing this data in. Whether that covers his paycheck, let alone brings profit is irrelevant to him. He is also the one responsible for reporting the profit numbers on that, so obviously the numbers will be cooked to indicate his work greatly benefits the business.
It's used to generate cold call lists