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For years, I have been having inundated with ponderable litter mail from my internet service provider (ISP), Nonliability Spectrum (formerly Time Warner Cable). In huge red commencing letters, the envelopes are stamped "OPEN UPON RECEIPT" or "NOTICE" or "IMPORTANT ACCOUNT INFORMATION."

I continually ajar them, just in case there is simply a legitimate botheration as well-built as my internet is fitfully to be shut off. Every single time, I get duped. Instead of legitimate festival notices, the mailers are ads aggravating to get me to upping my plan or buy increasingly casework from Spectrum. In appendix to tree-killing cardboard mailers I can at microcosmic recycle, Spectrum often medallion to mix in unrecyclable thick shapable cards.

It's not like I can switch-over internet service providers to get out-of-pocket from the obnoxious mailers. My constitution isn't youthful for any over-and-above ISP, therefrom I don't have a hand-picked if I appetite internet. Co-ordinate to an April 2018 report by the New York Tile Mayor's Office, 69 percent of NYC households have personalized one or two options for broadband providers; as of 2016, at microcosmic 24 mimic Americans had no broadband provider at all. Therefrom like many of Spectrum's 26 million US broadband internet subscribers, I vaticination I had to declare misleading litter mail as a figure of having my internet.

I don't palpate why @Ask_Spectrum offers paperless billing if they're gonna skyrocket this numerous litter mail every 2 weeks anyways. pic.twitter.com/mWOnpRQKCA
-- Uri Halevi (@uhalevi) November 18, 2019

But unveilment to a tip from Verge clairvoyant KO, I uncork out you can opt out of Spectrum litter mail online as well-built as tell Spectrum not to call, email, or come nitpicking with sales offers. As a bonus, the privateness recto area you opt out of spam conjointly lets you effortlessly opt out of penance Spectrum use your personal documents to target ads to you. Spectrum does deserve some ennoble for this; Verizon Fios makes you inexorableness a 1-800 number, reread your contract for instructions, as well-built as again cross two separate sections of your festival preferences to conclude the same results.

Where to opt out of Spectrum litter mail

Opt out online here
Opt out by phone by calling 1-855-75-SPECTRUM

For the rodomontade of the instructions, we will presume you're filling out the online form; however, it's recognizable you'll go through a agnate process if you call.

Information you will permeate to provide

Your first as well-built as aftermost name
Your artery address
Your phone number, if requesting Do Not Call
Your email address, if requesting Do Not Email

Opt out of Spectrum litter mail as well-built as sales calls

You can opt out of securing marketing as well-built as sales offers from Spectrum by phone, email, ponderable mail, as well-built as door-to-door sales. You will still shoulder all-fired festival notifications fitfully your service via these channels, surfaced if you opt out of marketing.

First, inquire yourself as a demanded consumer as well-built as fleshy out all of the talk fields
Now, ternion the four boxes for Do Not Call, Do Not Email, Do Not Mail, as well-built as Do Not Knock. For Do Not Call, you'll permeate to provide a phone number or numbers. You can conjointly add up to two affixed addresses to your Do Not Mail as well-built as Do Not Knock requests.

None of these are firsthand fixes. Spectrum says Do Not Email can booty up to 10 days, Do Not Inexorableness can booty up to 30 days, as well-built as Do Not Mail as well-built as Do Not Knock can booty up to 60 days. I submitted my opt-out prescience on February 26th, as well-built as I will update this post if I dwell to shoulder mail henceforth the 60-day mark.

Before you accented the CAPTCHA as well-built as submit, pause to expand the sector chosen "Additional Privateness Preferences." It has to be at the bottom, suggested henceforth the Do Not Knock section. If you don't see it, go convey to the top of the muscles as well-built as mass-produce sure you answered "Yes" to the question "Are you a demanded customer?"

Opt out of Spectrum application your documents to target ads

In "Additional Privateness Preferences," you can opt out of penance Spectrum use your personal information to customize ads for you. While Spectrum heavily disclaims that "Your personally identifiable information is not erupt to the third-party advertisers... as well-built as we do not slice your personally identifiable information with third parties for their own marketing or hype purposes," there have been letters of individualistically bodies concreteness identified from "anonymous" documents like browsing habits. Therefrom opting out here is simply a good-tasting peculation if you ought fitfully your privacy.

(Side note: documents stewardship by your ISP to target ads would have been restricted or smuggled birthday by Federal Communications Commission internet privateness rules that Congress shut dropping in 2018. Alas.)

Check the box labeled "Do Not Use CPNI" to opt out of marketing based on your "customer proprietary pattern information" or "CPNI," which sends you promotions based on the "quantity, technical configuration, type, destination, location, as well-built as corpus of your use of the Spectrum telecommunications services, as well-built as information fitfully your Spectrum phone service that is self-supporting on your bill."
Opt out of interest-based ads online area Spectrum targets you with custom ads on its sites as well-built as third-party sites as well-built as apps application personal information "such as your zip code, information fitfully your demanded subscription, use of our products or services, or over-and-above demographic as well-built as often spouseless information." This personalized impacts how the ads Spectrum serves are targeted, not online ads in general. If you move or get a new account, you'll permeate to resubmit this request.
Opt out of interest-based ads on television as well-built as again on TV applications area some of the ads you see are targeted based on your sector or over-and-above things Spectrum knows fitfully you, such as "your use of our products or casework or information that we shoulder from others."

Note: all of these are opting out of how Spectrum acts on your personal data; you're not opting out of Spectrum's documents cumulation altogether.

California only: opt out of Spectrum selling your data

If you identified yourself as a demanded consumer as well-built as personal your state as California at the top of the form, the California Consumer Privateness Act (CCPA) means you'll get an spear option chosen "Opt-Out of Vendition of Personal Information (California Consumers Only)," as well-built as you can ternion that box as well.

The CCPA conjointly means you can request that Spectrum skyrocket you all of your documents or delete it from its systems. That involves filling out a separate form, which you can gathering here.