• reddig33@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      I get a fundraising text every day. I text back stop. I marked as junk. It makes no difference. I got another one the next day.

      Do they not realize pissing off their base with this spam means we’re not going to donate?

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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        23 days ago

        Berate them with “foul language”. Depending on the country, they will mark your number as hostile, and it will be removed from their contact list. Since they share lists, this will propagate to other lists, as well.

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          23 days ago

          I did that around the 2020 election and got a very sad text back that a real human sends those texts and didn’t deserve the “abuse”

          So if anyone is wondering, 'fuck off" worked great in rural America years ago. Maybe it still does, because I didn’t get any local calls last year asking for my money and vote

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          23 days ago

          Funnily enough, I got mad at CVS being far too persistent on my meds when I kept texting no I don’t need a refill that I finally said “fuck off” and then it finally stopped pestering me. I didn’t expect it to do anything. I was just mad.

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      23 days ago

      Million dollar idea (that probably violates campaign finance laws): Come up with a service that allows you to donate to any candidate, and will not sell or share your information, and will never contact you. The fee is $1 regardless of the donation amount. There has to be 1m people who would find this worth the added fee.