Corporate Disrespect & Contact Abuse
Channel: Perette Barella
Date: 2024-04-04

Spammers and scammers never respected anybody on the 'net, but in the beginning, legitimate corporations did.  Over time, though, that respect is diminishing, and they're using the same abusive, disrespectful tactics spammers use: coercing consent to be spammed, default opt-in to junkmail, making opt-out harder.

In this unscripted video, I discuss the matter and cite several instances: hotel chains, CVS, Intuit, and contrast the way these companies work with the way Amazon treats my mailbox.

0:00 Hotel chains
2:13 The Drycleaners
3:21 The Value of Peace & Quiet
3:46 The pressure toward contact
4:44 The pressure for peace
5:38 When contact involves coercion: CVS
7:30 A contrast: Amazon
8:22 The escalation to abuse
9:57 Abuse is not necessary
10:16 Doubling-down on abuse
10:45 The Way It Should Be
11:19 Stay Away from Abusers
13:05 Pushing back, preventing spread
14:38 Abusers: what to change