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Agree. The number of services i use where the apps continually add new marketing preferences which are defaulted to ‘enabled’ despite the fact that all other pr
by hsbauauvhabzb 9mo ago
Agree. The number of services i use where the apps continually add new marketing preferences which are defaulted to ‘enabled’ despite the fact that all other preferences are disabled is disgusting and clearly used by some companies to ignore people’s actual preferences.
LinkedIn is one of the worst offenders.
- duskdozer 9mo agoHave you noticed certain financial providers sending blatant marketing emails with no unsubscribe option and a comment along the lines of "these emails are not marketing"
- pil0u 9mo agoThis is illegal practice in the EU
- duskdozer 9mo agoIt's illegal in the US too as far as I'm aware. But you missed the part where they clearly stated "it's not marketing" ;)
- nkrisc 9mo agoThey go in the junk folder and then get marked and reported as spam.
- chrisjj 9mo agoDangerous, since this invites genuine service emails to be junked.
- MiddleEndian 9mo agoI think that's fine. If 20% of the emails from some company (let's say Paypal) are spam, then all email providers (especially Gmail, the largest provider) should mark ALL of their emails as spam by default until they stop spending spam. If they want to keep spamming, they can at least humiliate themselves by telling people to check their spam folders for their emails.
- chrisjj 9mo agoIt proved not fine for me on an occasion of missing a service email and losing an account as a result.
- MiddleEndian 9mo agoI would say the base problem is that said organization sent you spam and then disconnected you, rather than the spam filter.
- chrisjj 9mo agoThe disconnection was the fault only of the spam filter hiding the service mail.
- MiddleEndian 9mo agoI mean if said company first spammed you and you marked them as spam, then it is on them. No different than if someone sent you a bunch of unwanted letters and you threw them out, but one of them happened to be relevant. It's on the organization sending you junk.
- chrisjj 9mo agoThis is not you marking them as spam. This is "all email providers (especially Gmail, the largest provider) should mark ALL of their emails as spam".
- Terr_ 9mo agoThe corporate version of video-uploaders writing "no copyright infringement intended", except with less an an excuse for not knowing better.
- technothrasher 9mo ago"For Off-road Use Only"
- chrisjj 9mo agoYet rife. My complaint to a major UK provide was rebuffed with the blatently false assertion that the email promoting a website refresh was an essential service email.
- hsbauauvhabzb 9mo agoYes, but not anywhere near as annoying for me at least.
- vee-kay 9mo agoThe trick is create a filter to weed out such junk. And if a company sends me marketing fluff without unsubscribe option, then it goes in the junk/spam folder, and I may eventually discontinue my account with that service provider altogether. Because I periodically check my sp/junk folder to see if legitimate emails got dumped there, so I eventually know who's a spammer and who's not.
- genewitch 9mo agocontrol+alt+shift+Win+L
- junon 9mo agoThis never stops annoying me that it exists.
- duskdozer 9mo agoWhat the fuck lmao
- MiddleEndian 9mo agoIn Windows 10, they added a shortcut Ctrl+Win+Alt+Shift to open Microsoft Office 365 (or whatever they call(ed) it). Caused me a ton of confusion and annoyance when I picked up my laptop by the corner of the keyboard.
- genewitch 9mo agodon't do that, that made me wince a bit, toughbooks from yesteryear aside.
- dwedge 9mo agoWhenever I login to LinkedIn I get "emails aren't getting through to your main email address". 1. That's by design, because you spammed the shit out of it. 2. Given that all I do is send them to /dev/null, HOW DO YOU KNOW?
- mnw21cam 9mo agoThey're checking to see whether any of the links they put in the emails are being fetched from their servers. It's stupid, but it works for most people. I had a similar situation with SMS messages that were being sent to me with links informing me of status updates. These texts were useful, and I would go over to my real computer to check the web site. Then after a few days the text messages said "It looks like these messages aren't getting through to you, so we'll stop sending them." Which is also stupid, but it works for most people that load the web site on their phone from the SMS link. God help you if you have a dumb-phone.
- Sharlin 9mo agoYou don't need the recipient to actually click on any visible link. Tracking pixels are the oldest trick in the book.
- pluralmonad 9mo agoOnly if people naively automatically load remote content. My inbox receives the bits that actually come in the email and nothing else. If you send an empty email with all images, you sent an empty email...
- direwolf20 9mo agoProbably tracking pixels in the emails
- dwedge 9mo agoSo they'd miss it anyway, my mail client is firewalled to only be able to access the mailserver. I've been unsubscribed from a handful of newsletters because I don't read them. I replied to one and told them I did, even reached out on Twitter, but they still deleted me.