Customers who say “I'll buy that” and then don't

We never sign up for a free trial of anything if it involves giving more than a login and password which is made up on the spot, and an auto-generated throwaway email. Any personally identifiable or corporate information is worth money, especially a credit card number. With a credit card number and a (non-throwaway) email, any startup now has enough information to make a deal with a data broker and sell our information. This is considered a data breach for some employers.

I think you can see by Mr. Steinberg's article that you need to protect yourself and your company.

Instagram has a new report option “I’ve already bought an item in this ad” or something similar.

I haven’t played baseball or softball in nearly a decade, but it didn’t stop them from spamming my page with adverts for bats.

Selected the option and haven’t seen an ad for bats since.

I predict Meta will be out of business in ten years if this is still the best targeted advertising tech they can can squeeze out of the engineers who sold their soul to work on that monstrosity.

I think we should do something to hold those customers accountable. If corporations are people and we hold them accountable, why not customers who lie?