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the email w/unsub link could be forwarded also, it's often a portal to change notification settings w/o auth and leaks personal preference info - and when there
by gfody 5y ago
the email w/unsub link could be forwarded also, it's often a portal to change notification settings w/o auth and leaks personal preference info - and when there is auth it's impossible to unsub when if were signed up maliciously.
it happened to me - someone charged a bunch of stuff to my cc and then registered my email at thousands of sites to bury the email receipts (it didn't work since I have simple filters for that sort of thing) but it has been impossible to unsubscribe from all the junk. livemail's bulk optout was roughly 50% effective. the dark patterns around optout are outrageous and it's worse when you have to use google translate just to find it.
- ratww 5y agoUgh that sucks. But in the cases where there is authentication, isn't it enough (in most cases) to reset the password and change the email to something disposable? Of course that's not really practical for the case where you get subscribe-bombed, but maybe for the general case it is, no?
- gfody 5y agoa bunch of my remaining junk accounts have broken pw reset, or even after taking control there's no way to delete the account and/or the "optout of everything" option doesn't actually stop them from sending me junk regularly (ie they just dont honor their own optouts)