You can attempt to opt-out, but this kind of thing should be illegal in the first place.
https://www.spectrum.com/policies/your-privacy-rights-opt-out
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2024
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lol, I’ve done this, multiple times. the only thing that has changed was that my name was replaced by “Residential Consumer” for the subsequent spam.
This shouldn’t have made me laugh so much.
Spectrum still sends that much spam even if you are a customer already.
No, i dont want your tv bundle i literally havent had any desire to watch cable tv for over a decade please stop asking!
Damn blurring out all the numbers must be more infuriating right?
Yes thank you for noticing my effort
This is why marketing is a bullshit job.
I received these about once a week when I was a Spectrum customer. Since I dumped them when ATT fiber became available, I now receive them three times a week.
If there was a company which charged me $1 / month to send spam mail to a company I would sign up in a heart beat.
Imagine if a company got 10,000 spam letters via snail mail every month and they had to sift through each and every one to see if any contains actual pertinent information.
Sure it wouldn't be much of a hinderance to the company itself but they would probably have to pay a few people at $30-$40 thousand a year to do it.
Do any of these have return labels?
Call the number and ask for a pre paid return envelope to send a signed contract with.
Then fill the return envelope with all this crap.
Now they have paid 4 times for junk mailing you and they pay to toss out their own trash.
"We don't need your signature, it can be one over the phone. Let's do it now"
Look at the amounts of wasted paper! 😡
Free toilet paper
Words can't describe the inner joy I felt making that call to cancel after I had Google Fiber installed. "No sir, there is no package or temporary deal you can offer me that's going to change the outcome of this conversation."
wait til you realize the largest ad-tech company in the world is now your ISP tho
My ex is ATT fiber which, despite having zero love for ATT, was pretty great.
They are trying to get me back...but they don't offer fiber (or any service!) at my new address.
I have zero love for ATT but love my fiber plan. I’d like to switch, since they don’t let me change the DNS server, but the plan I had before was awful and my internet dropped all the time.
Are you sure about that? I'm using the official AT&T fiber modem (Nokia white oval) and a pi.hole for DNS. I do remember needing to change a number of settings to get it to work though.
I’ll take another look at it. I had a pihole setup and tried to switch it over when I moved to ATT but couldn’t find any DNS options. After some quick Googling the unanimous answer seemed to be that ATT doesn’t let you. But I’ll look into it again, I would love to get my pihole working again.
I am using the pi hole for DHCP, maybe you just have to turn off the DHCP server on the att modem.