> The real problem here is not the chain of marketing tech that allowed this, the issue is that the marketing message itself sucked. If the message was valuable, many people wouldn't have been bothered by receiving it.
I disagree. This sounds like the rationalization marketing folks put forward, namely that they're actually helping people. No, they are not. At best, they're shoving messages into peoples' faces. At worst, they're shoving poisonous radioactive garbage messages full of lies into peoples's faces. The range of behaviour here is from mildly annoying to outright malicious. Very rare is the case when unsolicited marketing messages are something people are actually happy about.
I disagree. This sounds like the rationalization marketing folks put forward, namely that they're actually helping people. No, they are not. At best, they're shoving messages into peoples' faces. At worst, they're shoving poisonous radioactive garbage messages full of lies into peoples's faces. The range of behaviour here is from mildly annoying to outright malicious. Very rare is the case when unsolicited marketing messages are something people are actually happy about.