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   Paul Knightly (paulknightly@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 02:40:34 JST Paul Knightly

   New level of surveillance capitalism hostility achieved.

   Tried a different location for an oil change today. Attendant indicated a customer account is required for service. Got to the point of needing to provide my phone number and email, to which I declined. They informed me that without an email they wouldn't be able to provide an itemized receipt. Assumed that meant an emailed copy, but that also meant they would not provide a printed copy either.

   How did we get here?

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     Paul Knightly (paulknightly@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 02:41:18 JST Paul Knightly

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     For context, we had a local dealership do an oil change and servicing a year ago and I received somewhere around a dozen text messages, each from a different number, asking me to leave a review on their Google Maps profile. Each time I received a text message, I requested to be removed from their list, to which they circumvented by using a different number. Eventually left a 1 star review.