This is why I use email aliases.
Turn the email on and off at will; I know some services like Firefox Relay Premium will block promotional emails while allowing other emails.
World of Wartank and Warship for me
Reporting as spam is your best tool. That keeps you from seeing them and hurts their deliverability which they VERY MUCH care about.
That’s one of the most unethical ways to have users unsubscribe, and it’s done on purpose.
Companies who do that should get DOS attacked until their email infrastructure crumbles.
Btw, be careful that you only unsubcribe from services/pages you actually subcribed to or have a login there.
The others are fake to get to know that this address is alive and send you even more spam/sell that data point.
Seems like they’re going to be blacklisted from Gmail if they continue like this. From February all mass mail directed to Gmail need to have single click unsubscribe or they’ll ban the server and reject all mail (even legit mails)
Glad this is highly illegal in the European union.
Doesn’t stop this happening to you though.
I send out tonnes of GDPR threats to these companies and I wonder if they go anywhere
They will at a minimum once you forward a CC complaint to the GDPR office.
What part is illegal? I’m not aware of any laws specifically requiring you not to provide authentication when accessing unsubscribe settings.
report as spam in gmail works better :)
Mark it as spam.
Look into email aliases.
https://proton.me/blog/what-is-email-aliasNever click an unsubscribe link.
They are used to confirm your email address is active, which sell for more to spammers.
Some spam probably does this, some probably does not. As mentioned, tracker pixels can also confirm, but either way if the message was delivered to your inbox with no bounceback, even without opening it the sender can infer it is active.
That said, a “legit” company domain like StubHub should be safe to click on (as long as you are careful it’s not a spoofed domain) and unsubscribe.
If it’s a sender you’ve done business with and just don’t want emails from any more then the courteous thing to do is use the Unsubscribe link.
Just mark the sender as spam, if your mailserver is any good, it should auto block senders whom are tagged like that too much.
It’s extremely unlikely that any email provider would block a big service like Stubhub.
In EU at least they’re required by law to have working unsubscribe links that actually unsubscribe you, otherwise they risk getting huge fines, i understand that in California things are not too far from this but no idea about the details
This is the case across the whole US, as part of some legislation called the “CAN-SPAM act”. I think the person you’re replying to is talking about fake unsubscribe links in malicious emails.
At least it loads. Some of the links i click to unsubscribe just won’t work at all
Set up a small raspberry pi device that is.programmed to constantly spam them with nonsense emails and give it a decent battery and casing and hide it near somewhere with public wifi.
Maybe tie it into that Wisdom of Deepak Chopra text generator or something.
If you can even find an email to spam, all you’re going to do is get the IPs of the public wifi blacklisted. Whatever department at StubHub is sending those emails will probably never even know.
Even worse is when you need to log in
Block, report spam/phishing
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Yeah I had to do this a couple other lists because I have a very simple email address that gets added to things all the time, but if it’s really irritating to unsubscribe, I just click my email settings to report spam or fishing, and that usually creates an automatic filter for that center so you never get bothered again.
You can manually create a filter in the settings to send all their messages to trash or spam if you want as well.
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With a lot of people using free email services, most have some report button. What this does is flag the specific email as potential spam that you specifically do not want to see. With enough people doing that, the probability of the email and subsequently the source domain being spam and spam generators goes up. High probability means the emails may end up in the spam folder without hitting your inbox.
There’s a bit of fine tuning email marketing can do to mitigate that, like not sending emails too frequently. But that’s not a passive thing they can do, which is why there are teams devoted to email marketing specifically at some companies.
The worst thing for a marketeer is to be dumped in spam. No one will ever see it or any future emails.
