Definitely respect that but a bit too extreme for me. Have you never had a vendor reach out with a potentially useful service?

Occasionally I'll find something useful. And sure I could have found it on my own if I was searching for that specific problem but occasionally something new comes across that piques my curiosity. Even then I end up looking at competing products (love relying on Google's autocomplete to do "product vs" and seeing what shows up).

The spam game is getting better and better too - I wonder what they're going to look like in a few years with some help from ML. At that point they will look personal.