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So just unsubscribe from the mailing list then? Why are you setting up these custom filters instead of just clicking the link and opting out?

by fckgw 4y ago

happyopossum 4y ago
> So just unsubscribe from the mailing list then? I've encountered many companies that let you unsubscribe, then add you to a 'new' mailing list a few months later. You can usually identify these companies because when you click to unsubscribe they take you to a page with a dozen or more 'newsletters' that you have to uncheck to remove yourself from if you can't find the 'all' link.
- Groxx 4y ago
  Unsubscribe also frequently doesn't carry over when a company is sold to another, who then harvests every email ever mentioned anywhere to send new spam to.
gpm 4y ago
Because it's faster to set up a custom filter than search in the email for a link... I couldn't even tell you if there is an unsubscribe link (I mean I suppose I could go look, but I definitely never did). Also after getting home and already having multiple marketing emails I was sort of curious about just how many they were going to send, which is why it's in its own folder.
CapsAdmin 4y ago
I had custom filters for a while but I stopped using them, it became unmaintainable and caused some false positives. I then resorted to unsubscribing, but in my experience that doesn't always seem to work. I could be wrong here as I haven't kept track of who I unsubscribe from and if I would still get newsletters after the fact. But I've experienced receiving newsletters from some company I could've sworn I just unsubscribed from a few times. However it wouldn't be surprising if some website's unsubscribe feature was buggy. I can also imagine it's not being reported. Or if it was it, and you could figure out where to report to, the report would get lost on its way customer support to the people responsible.

So just unsubscribe from the mailing list then? Why are you setting up these custom filters instead of just clicking the link and opting out?

by fckgw 4y ago

So just unsubscribe from the mailing list then? Why are you setting up these custom filters instead of just clicking the link and opting out?

happyopossum 4y ago

> So just unsubscribe from the mailing list then? I've encountered many companies that let you unsubscribe, then add you to a 'new' mailing list a few months later. You can usually identify these companies because when you click to unsubscribe they take you to a page with a dozen or more 'newsletters' that you have to uncheck to remove yourself from if you can't find the 'all' link.

Groxx 4y ago
Unsubscribe also frequently doesn't carry over when a company is sold to another, who then harvests every email ever mentioned anywhere to send new spam to.

gpm 4y ago

Because it's faster to set up a custom filter than search in the email for a link... I couldn't even tell you if there is an unsubscribe link (I mean I suppose I could go look, but I definitely never did). Also after getting home and already having multiple marketing emails I was sort of curious about just how many they were going to send, which is why it's in its own folder.

CapsAdmin 4y ago

I had custom filters for a while but I stopped using them, it became unmaintainable and caused some false positives. I then resorted to unsubscribing, but in my experience that doesn't always seem to work. I could be wrong here as I haven't kept track of who I unsubscribe from and if I would still get newsletters after the fact. But I've experienced receiving newsletters from some company I could've sworn I just unsubscribed from a few times. However it wouldn't be surprising if some website's unsubscribe feature was buggy. I can also imagine it's not being reported. Or if it was it, and you could figure out where to report to, the report would get lost on its way customer support to the people responsible.