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Bots acting on the behalf of users should not be blocked but we have spent several decades treating bots (except for the googlebot) as bad. Like if I want to p
by causalmodels 3y ago
Bots acting on the behalf of users should not be blocked but we have spent several decades treating bots (except for the googlebot) as bad.
Like if I want to programmatically unsubscribe from a subscription, why should I have to do it myself?
- theamk 3y agoThat's a bad example, "programmatically unsubscribing" means giving spammers information that this address is alive. A much better solution is to report the unwanted email as SPAM, so the sender's reputation takes a hit. (and for that 1% of the cases where the address is not a spammer and user knows it, they can just hit "unsubscribe" manually)
- causalmodels 3y agoI’m talking about subscription services a user signed up for at one time
- vhcr 3y agoThat's a bad example, there's already the List-Unsubscribe header.
- causalmodels 3y agoSubscription services like Netflix, not emails.