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It's ubiquitous, although malevolent behavior.

I get a fucking SMS from Vodafone every day reminding me to complete some fucking survey. I even sent STOP back to the automated phone number they use, as it's specified if I don't wanna receive such messages anymore and I still receive them.

At least with Google you're using it for free. I'm f*ink paying for that Vodafone service and they still consider appropriate to spam me incessantly.

I could report the fuckers to https://anpc.ro/ but it's too much trouble on my side following up and they probably know it.



I can't read Romanian, but many years ago I reported a pizza restaurant to the British equivalent for a similar problem — I was being sent texts every day, and STOP and replying hadn't stopped the messages.

They wrote to the restaurant, the texts stopped, and I had a follow-up email from the data protection agency.


An ombudsman is a great route for any telco-related complaints, during my time at least they were flagged with the same (or higher) priority than vip-effecting issues.


Something similar would happen here. I'm not yet annoyed enough to bother but I see it coming.




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