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Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day?

  1. never signed up for anything like this,
  2. never donated to or signed up for emails from the DNC, et al.,
  3. political texts like this come all the time, and
  4. I hesitate to reply “stop” because I don’t want them to know this is a live number (is my instinct here outdated/inapplicable?)
eramseth ,

Every 4 years.

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Nurse_Robot ,

God damn I love my Google phone. Every once in a while I check my call logs and spam text folder to see the hundreds of calls and texts it screens for me, without any notifications. It’s nice

BassTurd ,

It is easily the most important feature on my phone. The call screening and spam blocking is unparalleled. I don’t think I have had anything blocked that shouldn’t be, and it maybe messes up 5 or less times a year.

blackbrook ,

when it started getting really bad, i started replying stop. it maybe made things a little better but i still get a fair number if these (including this one). it definitely hasn’t made it any worse.

PhlubbaDubba ,

Meanwhile I’ve actually donated and gotten zip,

Someone probably gave them your phone number

BearOfaTime ,

Filters are your friend. If this is a text message, there are SMS apps which can filter messages by content.

I block all unknown numbers.

PaupersSerenade ,
@PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works avatar

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/c09219e3-d95c-4465-9cc5-706a9f769b88.jpegGot 9 in one day. If they include a name it’s never mine

SendMePhotos ,

Use their numbers to sign up for stuff

LesserAbe ,

My wife gets a ton of political texts intended for me. Best I can tell is because her cell phone number is under my name with T-Mobile. (Used to be a Sprint account before the merger) I’ve never used her number to sign up for anything under my name. So it would seem either Sprint sold it or an employee leaked it or something.

I have a Google voice number and pretty much don’t get political texts. The Google voice number rings a T-Mobile prepaid phone, that number doesn’t get political texts either.

thesmokingman ,

A few different things contribute to this and, unfortunately, there’s very little you can do to fix it. I’ve spent (wasted) a ton of time trying to prevent it on my end.

  1. If you used your phone number on your voter registration, reregister immediately without your phone number. This is public information and it’s where these things start.
  2. Find contact info for your local, county, and state parties. All sides. Call them up and ask that your information be removed from their database(s). You might have to escalate a bit because usually phone bankers don’t know how to do it or don’t understand why you want privacy. Worst case scenario you can pull out a sob story about an abusive ex and how your information isn’t supposed to be public at all. That will usually get your shit pulled.
  3. While you’re on those calls, try to find out where they either send or pull their data from. Next go there and do step 2 again.
  4. Repeat step 3 as many times as it takes.

However, individual candidates who may have received a copy of your data or canvassed you might not get the notice. Eventually their copies of your data might get leaked. You have no control over this and no recourse. I know this from personal experience. Through a unique mixup with a name, I have slowly watched my data go from politician to politician to now general spam. It’s not coming from data brokers because the only place the mixup happened was with political data.

Best of all, the FTC doesn’t give a shit. If someone “manually” sends you a political text, it doesn’t require prior consent. The “manual” setup for this is a bunch of VoIP shit that doesn’t actually go back to a real human ever and is about as “manual” as the fully automated assembly lines from How It’s Made where a human is standing nearby with a clip board saying “yup that’s a widget.”

YurkshireLad ,

I keep getting emails from some republican Colorado group and I don’t even live in the US!

dohpaz42 ,
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

Good thing my browser doesn’t keep cookies, or that might’ve leaked my Google info. But here’s what the link goes to:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/44f93d1b-ff0d-4ab4-a77e-3e7bfa3e2ae3.jpeg

QuantumSparkles ,

I just have so many thoughts

PrincessLeiasCat ,

My first thought was ‘Russian troll farm’ and I never got to the second thought.

thepreciousboar ,

Why is it so obsessed with “white dudes”? Even if you are soecifically tagreting them, it seems odd to keep repeating it, especially since people who are goinf to vote a black woman of asian origins as preaident should tend not to be white supremacists

rhythmisaprancer ,
@rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

I have definitely seen an uptick in these over the last two weeks. Multiple times a day, some calls, too. I was involved in some activism 10-15 years ago so I accept it (still baloney tho). It has started on my work phone as well...

Wispy2891 ,

White dudes for Harris? This name seems a parody

Wilzax ,

www.donotcall.gov

Para_lyzed ,

Political organizations and non-profits are exempt from this list.

toiletobserver ,

True, law needs to be updated.

JackGreenEarth ,

That looks like a desktop app. You can send SMS from your non mobile computer?

Wispy2891 ,

It seems to be the SMS integration that MacOS can have when you also own an iPhone.

You can do the same on Android on any other operating system

cabron_offsets ,

I just got this same bullshit.

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