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We bought GDC all access passes this year and I am sickened to learn it no longer includes access to the GDC vault. Also super annoying that I get spam marketin

We bought GDC all access passes this year and I am sickened to learn it no longer includes access to the GDC vault. Also super annoying that I get spam marketing emails constantly now, because informatech sold my personal information. Honestly disgusting exploitation of knowledge. GDC needs real competition.

ghaff 3y ago
>I get spam marketing emails Welcome to just about any industry event. They're mostly legit enough to have unsubscribe links so either do some email cleanup from time to time or learn to just ignore them.
- hbn 3y ago
  I swear some unsubscribe forms exist to play by the rules but don't actually do anything. I've gotten spam emails from "enterprise db" about webinars I'm not interested in for I don't know how long now. They've got one of those generic unsubscribe links[1] that doesn't have a URL built for your email and makes you type the email yourself, so I have to check which of my several addresses they're sending emails to (my org gives a few emails that forward to the same place). But even after doing that like a dozen times with different email addresses they continue to email me. I mark them as spam now and blocked the address. [1] https://info.enterprisedb.com/manage-email-preferences.html?mkt_unsubscribe=1 https://info.enterprisedb.com/manage-email-preferences.html?...
  - ghaff 3y ago
    I suspect that some organizations have broken unsubscribe systems or you just end up getting repopulated from one of the thousand email lists you're on. If it's not a one or two click unsubscribe (e.g. doesn't require manually entering email), I'm pretty close to reporting SPAM and blocking at that point.
    - Breza 3y ago
      What's stopping you? I've worked on the technical side of implementing opt-outs in email newsletters. If you screw it up, you get spam complaints. That's the incentive to do it right.

ghaff 3y ago

>I get spam marketing emails Welcome to just about any industry event. They're mostly legit enough to have unsubscribe links so either do some email cleanup from time to time or learn to just ignore them.

hbn 3y ago
I swear some unsubscribe forms exist to play by the rules but don't actually do anything. I've gotten spam emails from "enterprise db" about webinars I'm not interested in for I don't know how long now. They've got one of those generic unsubscribe links[1] that doesn't have a URL built for your email and makes you type the email yourself, so I have to check which of my several addresses they're sending emails to (my org gives a few emails that forward to the same place). But even after doing that like a dozen times with different email addresses they continue to email me. I mark them as spam now and blocked the address. [1] https://info.enterprisedb.com/manage-email-preferences.html?mkt_unsubscribe=1 https://info.enterprisedb.com/manage-email-preferences.html?...
- ghaff 3y ago
  I suspect that some organizations have broken unsubscribe systems or you just end up getting repopulated from one of the thousand email lists you're on. If it's not a one or two click unsubscribe (e.g. doesn't require manually entering email), I'm pretty close to reporting SPAM and blocking at that point.
  - Breza 3y ago
    What's stopping you? I've worked on the technical side of implementing opt-outs in email newsletters. If you screw it up, you get spam complaints. That's the incentive to do it right.