I agree with each item but I'm not optimistic. Even brick and mortar stores are demanding phone numbers and emails to complete in-store transactions now. I used to fight a war of wills refusing to provide either until Home Depot associatesstraight up said they wouldn't finish the transaction and no one had authorization to bypass the email field when I tried to buy a freezer there.

I since set up an email alias with fastmail to deal with this crap. I recently had a similar thing go down at DSW -- they sent my junk account via my alias 4 emails in the space of two days.