> All marketing email has an unsubscribe link if it didn't before GDPR says nothing about marketing emails. I can only speak for the Netherlands, but our laws

> All marketing email has an unsubscribe link if it didn't before GDPR says nothing about marketing emails. I can only speak for the Netherlands, but our laws about unsolicited commercial communication is what applies there. What GDPR has to do with it is that they need your contact details to send you anything, so they process personal data. The predecessor to GDPR (called DPD, from the late 90s) also required companies to ask consent if there was no need to process your data for things like fulfilling a contract (same as with GDPR: they only need consent if it's not for a certain set of exceptions). > You also know you can get all the information a company has on you This was also the case under the previous law.