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I am sick of companies that abuse consent. For example, one online retailer - from whom I have only ever made one purchase, which was returned, due to poor qual
by switch007 12y ago
I am sick of companies that abuse consent. For example, one online retailer - from whom I have only ever made one purchase, which was returned, due to poor quality - regularly sends 3-8 emails a month.
Further, their unsubscribe form actually resulted in another spam message.
It's almost a guarantee that when you buy a single item from a retailer, ensuring you uncheck/check properly all the boxes, you will be bombarded with promotional marketing emails from them forever.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y agoThis is why you set up a email address at your own domain, and give any company asking for your email <company.domain>@<your.domain> (And possibly complain publicly when unsubscribe links don't work) Some email providers ignore '+' signs and periods in email addresses, but more and more companies have gotten wise to that.
- __chrismc 12y agoI've found an increasing number of sites use validation preventing the use of '+' in email addresses (which I used extensively when on Gmail). To get around this, I use a feature of Fastmail to give me something similar - <myname>@<company>.<my.domain>. By putting the unique part in the domain, it's less likely to be stopped by a fussy validator. Combine with some of their auto-filtering and I have an easy way to track who's abusing their ability to mail me, and to take action appropriately.