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Have you noticed certain financial providers sending blatant marketing emails with no unsubscribe option and a comment along the lines of "these emails are not
by duskdozer 9mo ago
Have 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".
- MiddleEndian 9mo agoRight, and I think that if they send spam, all email providers (especially gmail, the largest provider) should mark all their emails as spam by default. They are doing what is described above at a large scale, so large-scale reactions are needed. Of course, if you manually mark them as not-spam, then gmail should respect your choice as a user.
- vee-kay 9mo ago
- 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.