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I'm very surprised to see you are being downvoted, I was convinced everybody is doing that. Spam is spam, period. Asking me go click on a link that leads somewh

I'm very surprised to see you are being downvoted, I was convinced everybody is doing that. Spam is spam, period. Asking me go click on a link that leads somewhere is just a waste of my time - and there are still a few culprits out there who instead of unsubscribing me straight away demand that I log in to "manage my notification preferences"!

jacquesm 3y ago
The worst ones are the ones that add a whole paragraph to their spam to explain why it isn't spam and they have a right to send you their junk.
- justinclift 3y ago
  Yeah, those are lousy. Even worse though are places like Atlassian, which add a footer to some of their emails like "this email can't be unsubscribed from". Even though it's directly illegal for them to have emails that can't be unsubscribed from. It's their own special "Fuck You!" message to their email recipients.
  - PedroBatista 3y ago
    Their lawyers will argue that’s a transactional email part of the functionality of the app, so they can play fast and loose with legal requirements
    - justinclift 3y ago
      I'm not even their customer (and never will be), so not really sure what kind of app functionality they'd be claiming. :/ But the concept of your comment "they're just doing what they want because they reckon they can get away with it" is pretty common among large tech companies.
piva00 3y ago
Or some simply do not unsubscribe you. After feeling gaslighted by some spam emails that I was very sure I had unsubscribed from, I started keeping a spreadsheet to track my requests with date, and what link I followed to get removed. Almost 25% of my requests have never been honoured, it's disgusting.
- offices 3y ago
  Well, computers are tough. It takes ~31 days to update a database, right?
  - gafage 3y ago
    A database? No, that's instant. But when you have dozens of databases, each owned by a different company, and they feed off each other perhaps once a day, then you can end up with a long time before all your data is deleted.
    - MereInterest 3y ago
      And that’s their problem, not mine. If they structure their email campaigns such that it takes a long time to update every database, that’s a design choice on their side. When that design choice means they effectively ignore my unsubscribe, well, I don’t see why that should receive any sympathy.
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blitzar 3y ago
Furthermore I consider it a public service, if enough good people mark it as spam then the algorithm can block it for other users too.
developer93 3y ago
Or move your email to a list they can sell on..

jacquesm 3y ago

The worst ones are the ones that add a whole paragraph to their spam to explain why it isn't spam and they have a right to send you their junk.

justinclift 3y ago
Yeah, those are lousy. Even worse though are places like Atlassian, which add a footer to some of their emails like "this email can't be unsubscribed from". Even though it's directly illegal for them to have emails that can't be unsubscribed from. It's their own special "Fuck You!" message to their email recipients.
- PedroBatista 3y ago
  Their lawyers will argue that’s a transactional email part of the functionality of the app, so they can play fast and loose with legal requirements
  - justinclift 3y ago
    I'm not even their customer (and never will be), so not really sure what kind of app functionality they'd be claiming. :/ But the concept of your comment "they're just doing what they want because they reckon they can get away with it" is pretty common among large tech companies.

piva00 3y ago

Or some simply do not unsubscribe you. After feeling gaslighted by some spam emails that I was very sure I had unsubscribed from, I started keeping a spreadsheet to track my requests with date, and what link I followed to get removed. Almost 25% of my requests have never been honoured, it's disgusting.

offices 3y ago
Well, computers are tough. It takes ~31 days to update a database, right?
- gafage 3y ago
  A database? No, that's instant. But when you have dozens of databases, each owned by a different company, and they feed off each other perhaps once a day, then you can end up with a long time before all your data is deleted.
  - MereInterest 3y ago
    And that’s their problem, not mine. If they structure their email campaigns such that it takes a long time to update every database, that’s a design choice on their side. When that design choice means they effectively ignore my unsubscribe, well, I don’t see why that should receive any sympathy.

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blitzar 3y ago

Furthermore I consider it a public service, if enough good people mark it as spam then the algorithm can block it for other users too.

developer93 3y ago

Or move your email to a list they can sell on..