I wrote “because I don’t to” or something as the reason, which was immediately accepted.
Looks like multiple hurdles to discourage people from opting out – the notification without buttons on, form to fill in, verification PIN code by email you need to enter.
hmmm I’d forgotten about this, I objected after reading Alans blog & heard nothing… I finally got a reply today, that my objection had been honoured.. Yay only took 2 months
When I first opted out I heard nothing, days went by and I was reading posts from people saying they’d heard back straight away at the speed of automatic response. I went through the exact process exactly a second exact time and received an immediate reply.