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A pet peeve is unsubscribe links are frequently on an obscure domain that has found it's way onto Adblock lists. That's got be by design.

wlesieutre 5y ago
If something makes itself difficult to unsubscribe you could always feed it to the spam filter
- bentcorner 5y ago
  When I unsubscribe from a mailing list I know I didn't sign up for, I'll also hit the report spam button in the hopes it gives them some negative gmail juju.
  - mkr-hn 5y ago
    This does get reported to the sending platform. Stuff like Mailgun and Mailchimp will show you a rate for it, and they do suspend if it gets too high.
  - jtbayly 5y ago
    Depending on where you do it, yeah, it works. In the gmail interface for gmail, but also in the unsubscribe reason box for the sending platform. Both work.
    - eloisius 5y ago
      Do both, but definitely do the spam report via Gmail or your email provider because that dings the platform they use as well. Without a threat to their mailability, they'd have no incentive to keep their customers (the person spamming you) honest.
- rabuse 5y ago
  I do this if my attempt to unsubscribe fails at all.
- foxpurple 5y ago
  I mark any newsletter as spam if I didn’t intentionally sign up which is 100% of the time
ssharp 5y ago
It's not uncommon for the unsubscribe links to live on the same domain as the link tracking and other features of whatever email or marketing automation platform they are on, so if those are blocked to prevent tracking, the unsubscribe links would be as well.
nkrisc 5y ago
If I can't unsubscribe with a single click then it's spam and I report it as spam. They don't give a shit about me, so I don't give a shit about them.
3np 5y ago
And more and more often, unsubscribe links go 403 or even 500 when on Tor or well-known VPNs, while the rest of the site works fine on it. A great way to make me never want to deal with you again is to coerce me to doxx myself to unsubscribe from your newsletter.
- foxpurple 5y ago
  I find reporting as spam or setting a filter rule is easier than unsubscribing.
eloisius 5y ago
It's easy: I set a rule in Mail that flags every email containing "Unsubscribe" or related terms with a red flag, and I review and mark them as junk when they show up. Every newsletter is spam because I would never ever sign up for one, regardless of whether I do business with the sender. Either they are illegally mailing me spam from some list that they purchased, or they hid their "please don't send me bullshit" opt out when I signed up for their services, because I would never ask to receive marketing or product updates. It's all spam.

wlesieutre 5y ago

If something makes itself difficult to unsubscribe you could always feed it to the spam filter

bentcorner 5y ago
When I unsubscribe from a mailing list I know I didn't sign up for, I'll also hit the report spam button in the hopes it gives them some negative gmail juju.
- mkr-hn 5y ago
  This does get reported to the sending platform. Stuff like Mailgun and Mailchimp will show you a rate for it, and they do suspend if it gets too high.
- jtbayly 5y ago
  Depending on where you do it, yeah, it works. In the gmail interface for gmail, but also in the unsubscribe reason box for the sending platform. Both work.
  - eloisius 5y ago
    Do both, but definitely do the spam report via Gmail or your email provider because that dings the platform they use as well. Without a threat to their mailability, they'd have no incentive to keep their customers (the person spamming you) honest.
rabuse 5y ago
I do this if my attempt to unsubscribe fails at all.
foxpurple 5y ago
I mark any newsletter as spam if I didn’t intentionally sign up which is 100% of the time

ssharp 5y ago

It's not uncommon for the unsubscribe links to live on the same domain as the link tracking and other features of whatever email or marketing automation platform they are on, so if those are blocked to prevent tracking, the unsubscribe links would be as well.

nkrisc 5y ago

If I can't unsubscribe with a single click then it's spam and I report it as spam. They don't give a shit about me, so I don't give a shit about them.

3np 5y ago

And more and more often, unsubscribe links go 403 or even 500 when on Tor or well-known VPNs, while the rest of the site works fine on it. A great way to make me never want to deal with you again is to coerce me to doxx myself to unsubscribe from your newsletter.

foxpurple 5y ago
I find reporting as spam or setting a filter rule is easier than unsubscribing.

eloisius 5y ago

It's easy: I set a rule in Mail that flags every email containing "Unsubscribe" or related terms with a red flag, and I review and mark them as junk when they show up. Every newsletter is spam because I would never ever sign up for one, regardless of whether I do business with the sender. Either they are illegally mailing me spam from some list that they purchased, or they hid their "please don't send me bullshit" opt out when I signed up for their services, because I would never ask to receive marketing or product updates. It's all spam.