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Also, those unsubscribe links don't necessarily work, even in non-phishing emails. Besides the usual bad faith (e.g., ignoring unsubscribes, or creating new ca
by neilv 3y ago
Also, those unsubscribe links don't necessarily work, even in non-phishing emails.
Besides the usual bad faith (e.g., ignoring unsubscribes, or creating new categories of communications into which users are opted-in), I saw a new one just an hour ago:
The unsubscribe link, in genuine marketing email for a brand, is for some email address other than the one to which the email was sent. (In this case, I was unsubscribing some unlikely-looking earthlink address, of all things, in an uneditable form field.)
- pests 3y agoNextDoor is horrible with this. 7 different "groups" of notifications each with 5+ notification types each with an option to disable it. The unsubscribe link in each email only lets you unsubscribe from that one specific notification type. You have to login to go through and disable them all (a 5 minute task by itself) but then when they add new groups or types its auto-enabled. Super frustrating and led to me deleting my account.
- lucb1e 3y ago> don't necessarily work, even in non-phishing emails Probably you don't, but just in case: note that if you press such a button for a phishing email in an attempt to get off their list, all you do is confirm that your email address is active and you're interacting with their message
- neilv 3y agoYep, I should've mentioned that, for people who don't yet know.