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Never 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.
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.
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.
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
Maybe I am ignorant, but report to who?
I guess below in another comment that was answered. Send it to their registrar.
Yeah, I would have to report it to the sender. I don’t use any of the large public emails like yahoo, Google, or microsoft.
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.
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.
Silly you. There’s a saw, and a chain traping your leg. You know what to do. You have one hour before your pretty thermite necklace detonate. Good luck.
Never trust anyone who thinks ‘traffics’ or ‘emails’ is a correct noun.
Github does the same. You can’t unfollow threads without logging in.
Microsoft has really messed up GitHub. Logs you out automatically if you haven’t visited in a few days, constantly asks you to verify your 2FA, and the new feed makes it extremely difficult to track engagement on your own projects.
The worst one for me is that they allow you to view your recovery keys any time - IMO this is a really bad practice, recovery keys should only be shown once after a user has set up 2FA
Probably going to move to Codeberg since I’m seeing a lot of projects making the jump over there, but the real solution IMO is a federated version control system
A few weeks ago, I got a new laptop, and GitHub just denied me logging in. I had to use the recovery code. I was extremely angry because I entered the 2FA codes right, and it always just said unable to login.
What I do with these sometimes is replying to the e-mail itself with a message that has only the text unsubscribe in all caps. Might add that to the subject as well.
Sometimes it works.
I used to manage an email queue that collected both GDPR requests and responses to marketing emails and saw a fair number of those. Many companies have it setup to forward responses to marketing emails to a support queue somewhere, but some don’t
It’s called StubHub because this feels as bad as stubbing your toe.
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.
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 :)
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.
