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Yes, I want to subscribe to your newsletter! Automatically with a browser plugin, with an address that will even accept your mails. Unfortunately no human will

by jo909 10y ago

Yes, I want to subscribe to your newsletter! Automatically with a browser plugin, with an address that will even accept your mails. Unfortunately no human will read them in the end, but I'm sure your metrics will be great. I might even accept a cookie so you know I'm already subscribed to your great newsletter. Now if everybody were to do that...

passivepinetree 10y ago
What browser plugin do you use?
- jo909 10y ago
  Just saying I want to, I'm not actually doing it. I hope somebody develops such a plugin now so we can fill their pretty little mailing lists with all the millions of subscribers they want and deserve.
  - passivepinetree 10y ago
    Shoot, I didn't pick up on that and got my hopes up!
rdiddly 10y ago
That would be an great app. The user could globally set their fake name and email address -- for example I'd use my old Yahoo mail that I keep for spam storage... in the cloud(tm)!!! The app could query and update a central store of signup sequences for known sites (the names & order of the fields to supply, or even a sequence of fake keystrokes to send when the time comes, kind of like KeePass's auto-type feature).
franciscop 10y ago
Just imagine a plugin that searches the page for emails and subscribes their email to themselves. PS, when forced to give an email (like 5 min ago for this Wifi) just use @mailinator.com with anything prepended.
- mxuribe 10y ago
  I never heard of this one; pretty neat!
- jo909 10y ago
  Well filtering out their own domains or big anonmailers or fakes is not that hard, so it's best if the address is not distinguishable from someone who is just really bad at reading their mail. Of course they will then begin to make automated sign ups harder, maybe with captchas or confirmation links etc. which will also discourage real users and maybe kill this concept in the long run.
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Pinckney 10y ago
Would admin@spamcop.net be more effective?

by jo909 10y ago

passivepinetree 10y ago

What browser plugin do you use?

jo909 10y ago
Just saying I want to, I'm not actually doing it. I hope somebody develops such a plugin now so we can fill their pretty little mailing lists with all the millions of subscribers they want and deserve.
- passivepinetree 10y ago
  Shoot, I didn't pick up on that and got my hopes up!

rdiddly 10y ago

That would be an great app. The user could globally set their fake name and email address -- for example I'd use my old Yahoo mail that I keep for spam storage... in the cloud(tm)!!! The app could query and update a central store of signup sequences for known sites (the names & order of the fields to supply, or even a sequence of fake keystrokes to send when the time comes, kind of like KeePass's auto-type feature).

franciscop 10y ago

Just imagine a plugin that searches the page for emails and subscribes their email to themselves. PS, when forced to give an email (like 5 min ago for this Wifi) just use @mailinator.com with anything prepended.

mxuribe 10y ago
I never heard of this one; pretty neat!
jo909 10y ago
Well filtering out their own domains or big anonmailers or fakes is not that hard, so it's best if the address is not distinguishable from someone who is just really bad at reading their mail. Of course they will then begin to make automated sign ups harder, maybe with captchas or confirmation links etc. which will also discourage real users and maybe kill this concept in the long run.
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Pinckney 10y ago

Would admin@spamcop.net be more effective?