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Hey I'm sure you all know how sketchy club cards are for collecting your data. But I do begrudge paying slightly higher prices just for valuing my privacy. I was wondering if there was any way to sign up to these things whilst limiting the data they have access to. Would it be enough to sign up with fake details and never use their apps? Or should I just give up on this all together? Thanks!

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[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago (8 children)

If they let you give them a phone number, I always use (in the USA) my area code plus 867-5309. So far it has always work. Younger checkout people don't see anything unusual and older ones get a laugh out of it.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

What happens if someone else beats you to that and uses your fuel points?

[–] clive@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

I found a few stores that dont allow redeeming fuel with that phone number. Makes me think they set the account up for people to use, or the poor person who actually has that phone number got upset after their fuel points kept getting stolen

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