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Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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Post by kristaps »

arkitaip wrote: post #13

I've gotten into the habit of spam labeling these emails, hoping they contribute to the great spam filter in the sky. This works much better than unsubscribing because most of these emails aren't even intended for me but the jerks who keep using my email address to sign up for services and aren't required to verify the email address they provided. One thing I've realized having moved away from Gmail to fastmail, is t…

I first try to find an unsubscribe link, but if there is none or it's broken, then into the spam filter the message goes.

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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Post by MattGaiser »

ryanmjacobs wrote: post #14
MattGaiser wrote: post #5

What kind of person needs 60 unsubscribes per month? That seems like an insane number of newsletters/marketing lists to be subscribed to. Even if they did need it, they wouldn't need it for more than 2-3 months.

I get a lot of junk mail haha. It's like any time I purchase something from Walmart or Newegg, they subscribe me to like 5 mailing lists. I wanted something where I could bulk select items in my inbox and have someone else deal with it. I just made a product I wanted :) But yeah, it's not sustainable in the sense of money -- but in my eyes, if my product becomes less necessary over time, then I did my job right

Make it so that you can gift subscriptions. This is the kind of thing to give to a CEO friend as a gift. If they are actually chief of something, then it saves them time which is precious to them. If it is your friend and his one person marketing firm, makes a fun gift.

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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Post by ryanmjacobs »

MattGaiser wrote: post #15
marban wrote: post #4

Clicking unsubscribe myself vs. forwarding an email and potentially exposing private data —> Is that the argument?

One thing I would be worried about is that a lot of emails have auto login urls if you click a button. For example, if you get an email from Quora, you are auto logged into Quora from that link.

That's a fair point. I didn't realize they embedded login links, unless you explicitly do something.

For example with now.sh/Vercel: https://vercel.com/login?with-email=1

I'll probably create rules that sends a blacklist of emails to the trash and warns the user.

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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Post by kristaps »

homero wrote: post #17
arkitaip wrote: post #13

I've gotten into the habit of spam labeling these emails, hoping they contribute to the great spam filter in the sky. This works much better than unsubscribing because most of these emails aren't even intended for me but the jerks who keep using my email address to sign up for services and aren't required to verify the email address they provided. One thing I've realized having moved away from Gmail to fastmail, is t…

That gets you blacklisted on email service providers so you risk missing order confirmations etc.

Pretty sure sending only legitimely useful emails to customers will not get any vendor blacklisted.

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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Post by jopsen »

homero wrote: post #17
arkitaip wrote: post #13

I've gotten into the habit of spam labeling these emails, hoping they contribute to the great spam filter in the sky. This works much better than unsubscribing because most of these emails aren't even intended for me but the jerks who keep using my email address to sign up for services and aren't required to verify the email address they provided. One thing I've realized having moved away from Gmail to fastmail, is t…

That gets you blacklisted on email service providers so you risk missing order confirmations etc.

You mean it gets the spammer blacklisted so they risk being unable to contact me.

I've actually pinged a couple of services to let them know that spamming me is a security vulnerability, because they loose their ability to contact me.

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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Post by owenversteeg »

homero wrote: post #17
arkitaip wrote: post #13

I've gotten into the habit of spam labeling these emails, hoping they contribute to the great spam filter in the sky. This works much better than unsubscribing because most of these emails aren't even intended for me but the jerks who keep using my email address to sign up for services and aren't required to verify the email address they provided. One thing I've realized having moved away from Gmail to fastmail, is t…

That gets you blacklisted on email service providers so you risk missing order confirmations etc.

Really? How would they even know? I've been clicking "report as spam" for anything with a not-immediately-obvious or intentionally complicated unsubscribe button (to punish shady tactics) for a very long time now and I haven't seen any signs of missing any order confirmations.

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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Post by vzaliva »

I do not want to sound negative but my honest opinion is that you need to work on your price model. Very few people will be ready to pay $5-10 per month(!) for such small convenience. Assuming that you do mostly automatic processing your actual costs should be really small (per user). You can probably offer this service for $5/year and still make profit, while attracting more users.
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