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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click

www.wired.com

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Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click

www.wired.com

dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Customers may “misunderstand the consequences of canceling,” cable lobby says.
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    If you are in the EU I think you are legally allowed to request they delete all your data. Might be worth it.

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      They can use nordvpn to change their location to the EU then send the email

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          it is how a joke works, but I gotta say it’s not a very good one.

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          That actually is how email works, assuming you use a local client vs a web client. The headers will contain the origin IP it was sent from. Easy enough to geo locate and see it’s European.

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