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> ...because they're so fucking spammy that the SNR is like 1:99. This 1000x. I signed up for an SMS gateway service last year. Just for my own hobby use, nothing major. I gave them $10 to start service, and they charge like 2ยข or something per outgoing message. They have like 180 different prices for 180 countries, territories, provinces, parishes, cantons, prefectures, etc. Every week one of those prices changes, and I get an email notifying me of that. I tried to turn those off in my preferences, but they refused. I can opt out of marketing, weekly digests, and "tips and tricks"; but I can't opt out of pricing notices. So I added a rule on my end to hide those. I totally understand where they're coming from. They can't NOT give pricing change warnings. But at the same time, in the flood of constant notices, there may be something major I will miss. It would be nice if they instead gave me the option to never spend more than $0.XX per message, and return an API error if an attempted send fails for price threshold violation. Then the spam wouldn't be needed. |