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When someone sends spam perhaps don't click on any "Unsubscribe" type link...? Those links are often spammer controlled and just confirm your email address as
by justinclift 3y ago
When someone sends spam perhaps don't click on any "Unsubscribe" type link...?
Those links are often spammer controlled and just confirm your email address as valid.
- worksonmine 3y agoIf your e-mail client loads external images it was already confirmed on open without clicking any link.
- justinclift 3y agoEwww, why would anyone have their client configured to do that? That would be truly idiotic. Personally, my email is text only. It drops all HTML. I prefer it this way. :)
- 8organicbits 3y agoMost clients are configured this way by default. I change it every time I switch.
- freedomben 3y agoNearly everyone has their client configured to do that, because it is the default setting. Gmail makes that very easy to change, but many other clients have it buried in the menu
- account42 3y agoNone of the E-mail clients I use load external images by default and I haven't had to configure that behavior myself.
- crote 3y agoAre people still using that for tracking? I thought it was made pretty pointless by the large cloud providers simply prefetching and proxying it through their servers, and independent mail clients only loading them on-demand.
- Hnrobert42 3y agoNah. Hit unsubscribe every time. I own my own email domain, and I use a different email address per service. I have done so for 13 years. On legitimate emails, unsubscribe works correctly almost every time. True spam seems to originate from a handful of compromised services like LinkedIn, parkmobile, etc. I don’t hit unsubscribe on those, but I don’t see how it would make things any worse.
- justinclift 3y agoWould you happen to be running a windows desktop when checking your email?
- Hnrobert42 3y agoNo.