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  • Did you talk to your friend to see if she gave them your email address?

    The reason I ask is, it seems like what is happening to you is exactly what they say will happen in their privacy statement.

    FreeFlixTix uses personally identifiable user information for the purposes of the FreeFlixTix website and the FreeFlixTix referral and movie-admission-certificate-earning credit system. For example, we use email addresses of users, and of those persons provided on their referral lists, to send an invitation to the

    • I've asked, and I'm sure she gave it. On the surface the primary unreasonable thing they seem to be doing is sending so many emails, but really, when you think about it, this is a business that exists for solely the purpose of harvesting email addresses. They have a scheme to build an exponentially growing list of email addresses, which I'm sure is for sale to whoever wants it.

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      J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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