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one-click unsub is implemented by ignoring scrapers. Google is especially good about using a unique UA string
by elif 5y ago
one-click unsub is implemented by ignoring scrapers. Google is especially good about using a unique UA string
- Jach 5y agoAlso from my anecdotal experience it's possible google is a bit smart about unsubscribe links. My tiny blog has "unsubscribe" as part of its URL, it's truly one-click unsub and doesn't do anything clever like user agent checking or JS actions. Nevertheless, I see 8 gmails that still have email notifications on, and 3 that have unsubbed at some point.
- _wldu 5y agoThe access I saw to the registration URL was from cache.google.com and it looked like a client browser 74.51.221.37 - - [19/Aug/2021:22:05:16 +0000] "GET /validate/email/1d00a5c2648c211befd33f5a8a7cbfab HTTP/1.1" 404 0 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.107 Safari/537.36" $ dig -x 74.51.221.37 +short cache.google.com.
- _wldu 5y agoI see other GETs like this one: 216.99.127.196 - - [20/Aug/2021:16:25:42 +0000] "GET /validate/email/2591b346e5b8b435bdde54d797fe23a9 HTTP/1.1" 200 811 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.107 Safari/537.36"