You can opt out of both, but automated cold calling is straight up illegal in the UK (and it's a good thing it is).

In this context I meant that it was the same person doing a "normal" thing at such a scale that it becomes illegal. Scale absolutely is something that can turn something from legal to illegal.

Are you being paid to do research and publish it?

I'm in your same position and fully agree. An UBI would be way better... but until that exists it's not right that people make use of my work for their own profit.

So just like hearthstone dusting? That system lead to rampant power powercreep to ensure that people would still be incenvised to buy new packs and not just coast on the free packs. Though if my memories of yugioh are still relevant powercreep (and very liberal use of banlists) is sort of already baked into the original game.