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This looks like a double edged sword. Legit businesses may honor the unsubscribe request but all the dodgy people will see this as confirmation of a live accou
by LinuxBender 4y ago
This looks like a double edged sword. Legit businesses may honor the unsubscribe request but all the dodgy people will see this as confirmation of a live account increasing its resale value. What percentage of emails with an unsubscribe link are from a legitimate business?
- bsnnkv 4y agoI think it depends on how far gone the particular email account is. I ran this against my entire mail history roughly a week ago, unsubscribed from everything I didn't want, and my email inbox has been very quiet since. In my case, I was not receiving much malicious spam, but there were a lot of mailing list emails from legitimate companies and accounts that I did not wish to receive anymore. Definitely a good point to keep in mind for anyone who might want to use this tool to tackle malicious spam- I would recommend using dedicated spam blocking tools for that use case instead.