• Izzy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Report as spam and unsubscribe. If they send you more emails they are in violation of the law for the canned spam act.

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    1 year ago

    Once a company wouldn’t stop emailing me despite unsubscribing. I sent them multiple emails with no response.

    Then I heard that if enough people mark a sender as spam, Google starts automatically considering them spam for everyone. I emailed them to let them know this, and told them if they didn’t remove me, I would mark them as spam which would affect them majorly.

    They replied to my email within minutes and told me I was unsubscribed and would never receive another email from them lmao

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        1 year ago

        I did both, but I wanted my email removed from their system. I hate my spam box being filled up if I can help it.

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        1 year ago

        Some email systems now won’t mark things as spam. They’ll have a popup window asking if you want them to help you unsubscribe from the shit. I about blew it when I saw that.

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            1 year ago

            Gmail does it. Emails from mailing lists often have a header that specifies an email address you can email to unsubscribe (you just need to send an empty email with a subject of “unsubscribe” to the address). Gmail detects this header and asks you if you want to unsubscribe instead of marking as spam. If you do, it sends the unsubscribe email for you.

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                Sorry, I meant a header as in where the things like the subject line, servers it was sent via, etc. are stored. It’s a part of the email that isn’t user-visible. The unsubscribe email isn’t visible to the user unless you view the raw source of the email, but email clients can use it.

                I know marking as spam isn’t the same as unsubscribing. Gmail is trying to suggest unsubscribing instead of marking as spam which is reasonable (why mark it as spam when you could just unsubscribe and never get it in the first place?)

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      Maybe it’s personal preference, but I absolutely DESPISE companies who put this sort of cutesy, look how fun we are, but also very passive aggressive, bullshit on their communications.

      This goes beyond mildly infuriating for me.

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        I’m with you on that one. It feels like old people trying to be hip and modern, it doesn’t feel genuine.

        I have also never understood why a company would want to actively pressure you into letting them send you things you don’t want. Isn’t it just wasted bandwidth to blast emails to people who won’t ever see or want them? So bizarre.

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        1 year ago

        In this case, they’re literally threatening that if you unsubscribe, you will receive harassing texts forever. That goes a large step further than “Jeff the unicorn will be sad.”

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    1 year ago

    If someone pissed me off enough, I used to enter their email address every time a website wanted me to sign up for a newsletter. And if they asked me for my name while doing so, I’d enter a little message/insult for that person.

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    1 year ago

    Imagine if you broke up with someone or decided to stop being friend with them and they started acting like. Should be charged as stalking because “corporations are people too” so I can’t see why legally that can’t be the case.

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    1 year ago

    I hate stuff like this, that thinks it’s being “cute”, or “cool”, or “clever”, or whatever as if the company and I have some sort of personal relationship and could just interact on this level. No, Ridiculous Company, you and I do not have any kind of relationship - and now we never will even try again for one, any time in the future. In fact, from now on every time I see your logo, I will remember your “cleverness” and imagine a room full of imposter marketers and imposter developers sitting in a plastic building full of foosball tables and needlessly-big vertical monitors being “clever” for each other while their stock goes further and further down the toilet.

    Or is that just me?