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That's wonderful, whenever I go spend some time at my grandparents in France I have to shield several stupid marketing calls per day, usually some energy company who want to make them swap tariffs. It's tiresome, but my nan refuses to go on the 'red list' just in case someone might need to look them up in the yellow pages.
Same here, kids & jobsearching prevents me to be on a hidden list. It's always an energy crap too, like 1 dude fucking the whole country up lol.
It does make me wonder how they're going to enforce it tbh, because a lot of the time those bloody leeches outsource their telemarketing to other countries, and we know what happens don't we, as soon as a scam centre is closed another one pops up, rinse and repeat.
I actually went through it all once last year (oh yes I have a house, sure it's in central paris, of course I want a solar panel vendor contacting me...) and got the dude calling me, I told him about the spam calling and he was like completely taken back, he didn't know what to say, I sincerely think he didn't know him paying some publicity thing would end up like that.
Tried again but seems I'm blacklisted, not from the calls but from being called back 😅
Sorry for the rant, but enforcing it can be done like that I guess, but by the police ofc.