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No one willingly says "yes" to advertisements, but people will say "yes" to important-updates(-and-advertisements).
by unglaublich 5mo ago
No one willingly says "yes" to advertisements, but people will say "yes" to important-updates(-and-advertisements).
- nathanmills 5mo agoThen why is it whenever I watch someone use their computer they always accept cookies?
- cassianoleal 5mo ago1. accepting cookies is not the same as opting-in to advertisement 2. because most of the time, any other option is bloody inconvenient
- crote 5mo agoBecause companies are trying really hard to hide the "no" button: it's a single click to say "yes to all", but a safari through dialogues to say "no to all" Same with websites like Youtube who don't understand a plain "no" but offer a fake choice between "yes, harvest all my data" and "ask me again later". That isn't consent, it's coercion.
- al_borland 5mo agoThey are choosing the lowest friction option.
- matheusmoreira 5mo agoBecause people don't actually read what they are clicking on or even understand what they're doing. They just want to make the annoying banner go away. Same reason why people mash the next button when installing software.
- iamacyborg 5mo agoHundreds of thousands of people declaratively opt into receiving marketing with informed consent on a daily basis. Just because you don’t does not mean other people are like you.
- Esophagus4 5mo agoYes… seeing my wife’s email inbox is mind blowing. Maybe she didn’t opt in, but she will never unsubscribe from anything. Emails from every site she’s ever shopped at.
- _carbyau_ 5mo ago> Emails from every site she’s ever shopped at. This too is frustrating. Spam is not allowed unless you have a "prior relationship". But fuck me, that single toddler's bike I bought many years ago for my then toddler no longer qualifies as us having a relationship.
- array_key_first 5mo agoI mean, it's kind of an insurmountable obstacle. Why bother trying to unsubscribe when you're always gonna get spam anyway? It's just gonna come back. Also, websites are shady. If you put in a required email, they'll usually automatically check a little box for you that says "allow us to ruin your inbox?" How helpful of them. And, I'm not even convinced that checkbox does anything.
- Gigachad 5mo agoI just flag every marketing email as spam. It's much more effective than unsubscribing since it tells your email provider to just redirect everything from them to spam, and it causes trouble for the sender.
- account42 5mo agoExactly. Unsubscribe is for newsletters you consciously subscribed to but no longer want. Anything unsolicited that isn't a genuine one to one communication is spam and all the "unsubscribe" option does is verify that your email is active and will be able to receive more spam.
- xboxnolifes 5mo agoIt's definitely not insurmountable. It just takes a little bit of inbox maintenance. Pressing unsubscribe and report when I have spam in the inbox, 5 seconds here, 5 seconds there. I still get spam, but it's minuscule compared to not doing this.