Exactly my point, thank you for clarification!

Definitely, good way to put it.

This is another great idea. Similar to having extra email for spam.

Very true, this is nothing new and just wanted to stop for a moment and rant about my mundane experience and love the the discussion this sparked here!

Holy shit, now that is smart thinking! I can't believe he already made 300 pounds from listening to marketing calls!

You made me question myself now, was I being unreasonable?

Didn't even think that the clerk might have been just trying to help me out, I felt like this was a smart sales & marketing psychological trick to give up and go the way of least resistance to get me to sign up (obviously not by the clerk directly, but as part of their training on how to deal with customers).

But either way, thankfully I was polite and nice about it. I might have become too cynical about everything regarding my private info in the last few years.

Very true!

I have just the book for you!... Ah, finish in a day, nevermind.

Thanks for confirming! Was wondering if I had some kind of partial collection and couldn't upgrade therefore

Okay, well hope a lemmy dev sees your request! :)

Agreed. It's so much more interesting and feels very alive. Also the barrier of commenting is way lower than on other platforms, but I don't exactly know why.

Also 7 years and did quite some posting and commenting, all of those are now overwritten/edited with a protest message.