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> There is a reasonable expectation that when you submit your email to a company in exchange for their service, they will email you communications relating to t
by seszett 7y ago
> There is a reasonable expectation that when you submit your email to a company in exchange for their service, they will email you communications relating to their products and services
Certainly not. If I didn't check a box saying "I want to receive commercial emails related to your products and services" I expect not to receive those. I might unsubscribe from the whole thing if I don't have any other means of avoiding those useless commercial emails.
- Macha 7y agoI generally report such "you bought something and so we signed you up to the mailing list" activity as spam in Gmail, and if the unsubscribe button links me to a third party vendor, list "I never signed up for this list" as the reason.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 7y agoThis is how at least local businesses do here now, I don't have problem with marketing emails from them. You actually have to check the input, not accidentally forget.
- webbie917 7y agoThe issue here is "relating to their products and services". Per GDPR, the consent can not be "bundled". When you signup for an account you consent to communications about your account only and things like product updates or tips for using product should be under their own explicit consent. Most email marketing service providers don't even support multi-interest opt-out page, or charge a lot for configuring your unsubscribe page this way (like a multiple of list size for each option gasp), so this makes it impossible for email recipients to choose what emails types to opt-out of so marketers in turn don't bother to collect unbundled consent. Comparison of some market leading ESPs (see multi interest opt out row): https://www.bigmailer.io/bulk-email-marketing-services/ https://www.bigmailer.io/bulk-email-marketing-services/