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Formerly Free Postcode Lottery

Formerly Free Postcode Lottery

Blog News

Category: News

Sorry, the internet is broken

by Chris | News

We’re getting lots of complaints about the “Want better ads and bigger prizes?” continually popping up. This is not supposed to happen, it is only happening to a minority of visitors, and it most certainly is not a conspiracy to coerce you into consenting to sharing data. Please be patient while we, and the rest of the internet try to fix it. … Read more

G D P Arrrrrrright!

by Chris | News

Happy GDPR! We survived! Nearly 380,000 of you have consented to us sending you daily email alerts. It’s wonderful to feel so valued, not to mention, on the right side of the law. … Read more

G D P Aaaaaaaaaargh!!!!

by Chris | News

The EU is tackling spam and non-consensual exploitation of your data with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force on Friday the 25th of May. Hoorah! If you need help sleeping, I’d recommend reading up on it. If you’ve noticed a glut of “we want to keep in touch” emails, that’s GDPR. If, on Saturday 26th, you feel inexplicably zen, that’ll be GDPR. In the meantime, you will notice that we’ve started asking you to confirm what emails you want from us. That’s GDPR. … Read more

How to create a shortcut to PMP on your phone

by Chris | Community, News, Tips

The more times you visit the site, the more eyeballs we get on the site which means more money from advertisers and more money we can give away in prizes to you! We’re so grateful to all of our loyal users and we’d hate for your postcode to come up and for you to miss it. We don’t have an app (just yet) but there is something you can do to make checking PMP super easy, super fast and to make sure you don’t miss out on any wins! … Read more

RIP 'FPL'

by Chris | News

7 years ago I drew the amateurish logo above with a pencil and a mug to trace around. A few weeks later Free Postcode Lottery was launched, initially to some rather sceptical friends, but eventually to 1.8 million people. … Read more

Help us choose a new name

by Chris | News

A few weeks ago I announced that we are changing our name, in an effort to avoid litigation by People’s Postcode Lottery. Thanks to everyone who participated in the survey from that post. We’ve been playing with some ideas and wanted to get your feedback. … Read more

Sick of gambling companies? Self-exclude!

by Chris | News, Tips

Today is Grand National day and, like every year, we are being offered vast sums of money by betting companies to promote their introductory offers. They want to pay us to convert you into gamblers. We won’t be involved in their recruitment drives. In fact, we’ll go even further to protect you by promoting their self-exclusion policies. … Read more

We're changing our name

by Chris | News

A paid postcode lottery service called People’s Postcode Lottery are suing us for trademark infringement and “passing off”. We’ve pointed out that we are doing neither of those things, but despite our innocence and best efforts to try and resolve this with them, we are going to change our name, from FreePostcodeLottery.com, Free Postcode Lottery (and FPL), to something else. … Read more