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Like we need more spam in our life. Even when I go to a restaurant, I don't need their special offers to go back again. If I liked the experience, I will retur

by nafizh 9y ago

Like we need more spam in our life. Even when I go to a restaurant, I don't need their special offers to go back again. If I liked the experience, I will return myself, if I didn't, no offer would make me. And unless I am in the airport or out for a long time, I don't use the local wifi if it asks to create an account.

franciscop 9y ago
You can use Mailinator (or any of the alternatives) in these situations: https://www.mailinator.com/ https://www.mailinator.com/
BoorishBears 9y ago
The other day I went to a small restaurant and paid for my order with a debit card. A minute or two after leaving I got an email on my personal Gmail thanking me for my patronage, even though I had never been there before, and I hadn't offered my email... Except while I had been next door at a meetup and used their Wi-Fi. I guess they had the hotspot setup to send an email after you left the network. Gave me a bit of a spook thinking a small restaurant would go as far as to look get my email based on my card information, but it was still an unwelcome use of my email. Not only did they send that email, but they subscribed me to their mailing list without any indication on the capture site.
- rahimnathwani 9y ago
  Maybe you have your email to their payment processor at a different restaurant, in order to get an emailed receipt?
  - tehwebguy 9y ago
    OP said they didn’t provide an email, isn’t sure how they even contacted them.
    - volgo 9y ago
      If you've used Square before and emailed yourself the receipt from any merchant, the next time you use the same card it'll identify you
      - tehwebguy 9y ago
        I don’t believe it gives the email to the vendor but rather just sends a receipt from Square.
- blacksmith_tb 9y ago
  You're sure that it wasn't the POS terminal at the restaurant? I get quite a few email receipts from cafes and merchants who use the same POS as other places I've paid in past, lots of them from Index[1]. 1: https://www.index.com/customer-database/ https://www.index.com/customer-database/
  - usaphp 9y ago
    They are not allowed to send anything except for the receipt and only if customers agreed to it. And Even if customer agrees - the merchant themselves do not have access the email/phone number, the payment processor is the one who sends the receipt
- nothrabannosir 9y ago
  In these cases, please please don’t click unsubscribe. Just mark as spam. Even if gmail helpfully offers to unsubscribe for you: resist the temptation. It puts the incentives in the right place. It’s the only way to fight this, and it’s a damn good one. I urge everyone to stop clicking unsubscribe, ever, unless you explicitly subscribed to something. [edit: Even that automatically enabled “subscribe to our mailing list” nonsense, or “click this to not subscribe”, or whatever stupid games they play on us these days. No. Don’t let them joke you around.] Not saying you didn’t, just wanted to take this opportunity for a cheeky PSA :) Ironically, conditioning people to respect the unsubscribe button has, probably, insidiously led to more spam making it into people’s inboxes than anything else in recent memory. [edit: to answer the Why not both? ] Because incentives makes our world go around. Make no mistake: They don’t give a damn about you or your inbox and will do anything for those sweet sweet engagement and conversion metrics. Unsubscribe makes them feel the pain (this is the jncentive), and it helps them not take your inbox for granted. Making them eat bad spam rep score is the only weapon we have, to make them treat our inbox with respect. Use it.
  - vortico 9y ago
    Why not both?
    - chipperyman573 9y ago
      Marking a single email as spam doesn't do much. Marking an email as spam then continuing to receive it is weighted much higher.
  - iamphilrae 9y ago
    If they use mailchimp, unsubscribing gives you the opportunity to report there account as spam and get them banned from the service. Also no reason you can’t also mark it as spam in your email client too.
  - davchana 9y ago
    To add to above, also some scummy lists use the unsubscribe click as an indicator of a working email, and then classify/sell these at higher prices. And of course, you never get unsubscribed, just get added to more and more lists.
sleavey 9y ago
There's no way they can verify the email address you enter in the form is correct as they must give you web access to allow you to click a confirmation email! Just entering a made-up one works 99% of the time.
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by nafizh 9y ago

franciscop 9y ago

You can use Mailinator (or any of the alternatives) in these situations: https://www.mailinator.com/ https://www.mailinator.com/

BoorishBears 9y ago

The other day I went to a small restaurant and paid for my order with a debit card. A minute or two after leaving I got an email on my personal Gmail thanking me for my patronage, even though I had never been there before, and I hadn't offered my email... Except while I had been next door at a meetup and used their Wi-Fi. I guess they had the hotspot setup to send an email after you left the network. Gave me a bit of a spook thinking a small restaurant would go as far as to look get my email based on my card information, but it was still an unwelcome use of my email. Not only did they send that email, but they subscribed me to their mailing list without any indication on the capture site.

rahimnathwani 9y ago
Maybe you have your email to their payment processor at a different restaurant, in order to get an emailed receipt?
- tehwebguy 9y ago
  OP said they didn’t provide an email, isn’t sure how they even contacted them.
  - volgo 9y ago
    If you've used Square before and emailed yourself the receipt from any merchant, the next time you use the same card it'll identify you
    - tehwebguy 9y ago
      I don’t believe it gives the email to the vendor but rather just sends a receipt from Square.
blacksmith_tb 9y ago
You're sure that it wasn't the POS terminal at the restaurant? I get quite a few email receipts from cafes and merchants who use the same POS as other places I've paid in past, lots of them from Index[1]. 1: https://www.index.com/customer-database/ https://www.index.com/customer-database/
- usaphp 9y ago
  They are not allowed to send anything except for the receipt and only if customers agreed to it. And Even if customer agrees - the merchant themselves do not have access the email/phone number, the payment processor is the one who sends the receipt
nothrabannosir 9y ago
In these cases, please please don’t click unsubscribe. Just mark as spam. Even if gmail helpfully offers to unsubscribe for you: resist the temptation. It puts the incentives in the right place. It’s the only way to fight this, and it’s a damn good one. I urge everyone to stop clicking unsubscribe, ever, unless you explicitly subscribed to something. [edit: Even that automatically enabled “subscribe to our mailing list” nonsense, or “click this to not subscribe”, or whatever stupid games they play on us these days. No. Don’t let them joke you around.] Not saying you didn’t, just wanted to take this opportunity for a cheeky PSA :) Ironically, conditioning people to respect the unsubscribe button has, probably, insidiously led to more spam making it into people’s inboxes than anything else in recent memory. [edit: to answer the Why not both? ] Because incentives makes our world go around. Make no mistake: They don’t give a damn about you or your inbox and will do anything for those sweet sweet engagement and conversion metrics. Unsubscribe makes them feel the pain (this is the jncentive), and it helps them not take your inbox for granted. Making them eat bad spam rep score is the only weapon we have, to make them treat our inbox with respect. Use it.
- vortico 9y ago
  Why not both?
  - chipperyman573 9y ago
    Marking a single email as spam doesn't do much. Marking an email as spam then continuing to receive it is weighted much higher.
- iamphilrae 9y ago
  If they use mailchimp, unsubscribing gives you the opportunity to report there account as spam and get them banned from the service. Also no reason you can’t also mark it as spam in your email client too.
- davchana 9y ago
  To add to above, also some scummy lists use the unsubscribe click as an indicator of a working email, and then classify/sell these at higher prices. And of course, you never get unsubscribed, just get added to more and more lists.

sleavey 9y ago

There's no way they can verify the email address you enter in the form is correct as they must give you web access to allow you to click a confirmation email! Just entering a made-up one works 99% of the time.

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