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Is it actual spam? Is there no unsubscribe button? Are you sure you didn't sign up for any mailing lists?
by CameronNemo 4y ago
Is it actual spam? Is there no unsubscribe button? Are you sure you didn't sign up for any mailing lists?
- lupire 4y agoUnsubscribe button doesn't make it not spam. Political campaigns are notorious contact info buyers, because the government wrote itself and its cronies an exemption from spam laws, calling it "free speech".
- CameronNemo 4y agoI didn't say it was. The questions were separate.
- ElevenLathe 4y agoI have clicked hundreds of these unsubscribe links and they still keep coming. I don't have the patience anymore. FWIW they are spam for Democratic pols, and all seemed to start in 2020 after the Sanders pivoted to drumming up support for the Biden/Harris ticket (before that I only got email from the Sanders campaign about the Sanders campaign, which I didn't consider spam since I had signed up for it). But the last ~week has been the worst, like 20-30 very obvious spam per day, for races I've never heard of in states I've never lived.
- CameronNemo 4y agoI used to get tons of campaign emails but I just kept clicking unsubscribe and now I get very few.
- nickthegreek 4y agoSame. But the experience has kept me from every donating again.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoDunno, most of the spam on my gmail account takes the form of mailing lists or newsletters, and I go out of my way to never subscribe to mailing lists or newsletters. Often it's advertising services that aren't even available in my region.
- diebeforei485 4y agoThey get your info from voter registration / party registration.