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Guess what happens when you click "unsubscribe"?

MerelyMortal 5y ago
I don't receive any emails for about 6-12 months, and then I start receiving emails again. At least that's what has happened with NextDoor, twice - once each for different emails months/years apart. NextDoor also used to violate the CanSpam Act by requring you to log in to unsubscribe, but they fixed that a couple of years ago.
- anderspitman 5y ago
  I just learned how bad NextDoor's dark patterns are yesterday. I realized it was about the 4th time I'd tried to unsubscribe, navigated to the notifications page, and see that they have about 40 categories of emails they send you, split across several parent categories. You could turn off parent categories, but not silence everything at once.
- vidanay 5y ago
  My nearest neighbor is more than a quarter mile away. In a two-mile radius, I have less than a dozen "neighbors", and yet somehow, I have a NextDoor account that I receive spam emails about.
  - MerelyMortal 5y ago
    Do the content previews in the emails look like they're for your area, or could it be someone with a similar name registered somewhere else with the wrong email address and NextDoor never validated the email address? I hate it when companies allow people to signup with email addresses that aren't theirs, never validate the email address, and then start spamming me. I mark all of those as spam. The latest offender is Chime.com (I have a common-ish FirstLast@gmail that I'm phasing away from.)
    - vidanay 5y ago
      It's definitely the correct geographical location.
      - MerelyMortal 5y ago
        Despite me unsubscribing two days ago, I just received another email from NextDoor. *marks as spam*
    - withinboredom 5y ago
      I have a lastfirst@gmail and the fellow owning firstlast@gmail has occasionally used my email address by accident.
- nerdponx 5y ago
  Fun fact about CAN-SPAM: your recourse is supposed to be reporting them to your ISP. Except that Comcast/Xfinity itself is violating the CAN-SPAM act. I constantly get product offers and other junk from them, despite being clearly marked as "unsubscribed from all" when I click the unsubscribe link. They are also a local monopoly and I have no affordable alternative for "basic broadband". There does not seem to be any facility to report this to any regulatory agency of the US government or my state government.
Ekaros 5y ago
Your email gets added to known good addresses list and sold around?
- starwind 5y ago
  I at least haven't seem to have had that experience with legitimate companies. Spam, yeah, I don't even load images to those emails
plorkyeran 5y ago
You get a ridiculous page that makes it as confusing as possible to actually unsubscribe from everything. Once you succeed at that, you stop getting emails from them until they roll out their next marketing campaign, which you couldn't unsubscribe from because it didn't exist yet.
bennyp101 5y ago
A lot of the time it goes via a link that gets blocked by ABP, or my pi-hole - so I just give up and route it to junk

I don't receive any emails for about 6-12 months, and then I start receiving emails again. At least that's what has happened with NextDoor, twice - once each for different emails months/years apart. NextDoor also used to violate the CanSpam Act by requring you to log in to unsubscribe, but they fixed that a couple of years ago.

anderspitman 5y ago
I just learned how bad NextDoor's dark patterns are yesterday. I realized it was about the 4th time I'd tried to unsubscribe, navigated to the notifications page, and see that they have about 40 categories of emails they send you, split across several parent categories. You could turn off parent categories, but not silence everything at once.
vidanay 5y ago
My nearest neighbor is more than a quarter mile away. In a two-mile radius, I have less than a dozen "neighbors", and yet somehow, I have a NextDoor account that I receive spam emails about.
- MerelyMortal 5y ago
  Do the content previews in the emails look like they're for your area, or could it be someone with a similar name registered somewhere else with the wrong email address and NextDoor never validated the email address? I hate it when companies allow people to signup with email addresses that aren't theirs, never validate the email address, and then start spamming me. I mark all of those as spam. The latest offender is Chime.com (I have a common-ish FirstLast@gmail that I'm phasing away from.)
  - vidanay 5y ago
    It's definitely the correct geographical location.
    - MerelyMortal 5y ago
      Despite me unsubscribing two days ago, I just received another email from NextDoor. *marks as spam*
  - withinboredom 5y ago
    I have a lastfirst@gmail and the fellow owning firstlast@gmail has occasionally used my email address by accident.
nerdponx 5y ago
Fun fact about CAN-SPAM: your recourse is supposed to be reporting them to your ISP. Except that Comcast/Xfinity itself is violating the CAN-SPAM act. I constantly get product offers and other junk from them, despite being clearly marked as "unsubscribed from all" when I click the unsubscribe link. They are also a local monopoly and I have no affordable alternative for "basic broadband". There does not seem to be any facility to report this to any regulatory agency of the US government or my state government.

Ekaros 5y ago

Your email gets added to known good addresses list and sold around?

starwind 5y ago
I at least haven't seem to have had that experience with legitimate companies. Spam, yeah, I don't even load images to those emails

plorkyeran 5y ago

You get a ridiculous page that makes it as confusing as possible to actually unsubscribe from everything. Once you succeed at that, you stop getting emails from them until they roll out their next marketing campaign, which you couldn't unsubscribe from because it didn't exist yet.

bennyp101 5y ago

A lot of the time it goes via a link that gets blocked by ABP, or my pi-hole - so I just give up and route it to junk