24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
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Re: 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
#2Sounds like they have not got CORS set up on their servers either? Surely it should not allow mutating requests from random origins not on an allowlist?
Re: 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
#3How can you know that it "works"? Any company scummy enough to send spam to begin with, is capable of selling their customer data to a network of scummy companies that will do the same thing. I think most of the "unsubscribe" links are there to fulfill some legal obligation. They don't do what they're supposed to do, and might in fact be making things worse for the person who clicks them.
The only solution I've found to work, beyond the usual spam filtering, is to setup email on your own domain, and give every company a unique address. The moment you want to stop receiving email from them, you simply block their address. This deals both with the original company, and with anyone they've sold your contact information to.
Re: 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
#4How can you know that it "works"? Any company scummy enough to send spam to begin with, is capable of selling their customer data to a network of scummy companies that will do the same thing. I think most of the "unsubscribe" links are there to fulfill some legal obligation. They don't do what they're supposed to do, and might in fact be making things worse for the person who clicks them. The only solution I've found…
from 2025-10-26 to 2026-01-29 (the day I wrote this article), no_reply@24hourfitness.com sent me 40 spam emails.
In the 33 days since I wrote this article, no_reply@24hourfitness.com sent me zero.
Re: 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
#5Sounds like they have not got CORS set up on their servers either? Surely it should not allow mutating requests from random origins not on an allowlist?
CORS has nothing to do with (dis)allowing 'mutating requests from random origins' on the server unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean. The origin is a browser concept.
Re: 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
#6How can you know that it "works"? Any company scummy enough to send spam to begin with, is capable of selling their customer data to a network of scummy companies that will do the same thing. I think most of the "unsubscribe" links are there to fulfill some legal obligation. They don't do what they're supposed to do, and might in fact be making things worse for the person who clicks them. The only solution I've found…
My solution to spam emails is this: https://ahmedkaddoura.com/writing/hide-my-email
I create a unique iCloud Hide My Email anytime I need to give out an email. The issue here was I signed up for my 24 Hour Fitness membership in person at the gym where the cell service was bad and I couldn't get the WiFI to work, so I begrudgingly gave the guy my real email.
While I could have easily blocked their domain, I took it as a challenge to get the emails to stop.
Re: 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
#7How can you know that it "works"? Any company scummy enough to send spam to begin with, is capable of selling their customer data to a network of scummy companies that will do the same thing. I think most of the "unsubscribe" links are there to fulfill some legal obligation. They don't do what they're supposed to do, and might in fact be making things worse for the person who clicks them. The only solution I've found…
> How can you know that it "works"? Any company scummy enough to send spam to begin with, is capable of selling their customer data to a network of scummy companies that will do the same thing.
That’s quite a stretch for a company sending marketing email with a broken unsub mechanism.
Re: 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
#8How can you know that it "works"? Any company scummy enough to send spam to begin with, is capable of selling their customer data to a network of scummy companies that will do the same thing. I think most of the "unsubscribe" links are there to fulfill some legal obligation. They don't do what they're supposed to do, and might in fact be making things worse for the person who clicks them. The only solution I've found…
from 2025-10-26 to 2026-01-29 (the day I wrote this article), no_reply@24hourfitness.com sent me 40 spam emails. In the 33 days since I wrote this article, no_reply@24hourfitness.com sent me zero.
Assuming their mails follow a Poisson distribution, the 95% confidence interval for their new spam rate is 0-0.091 emails per day.
Re: 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
#9How can you know that it "works"? Any company scummy enough to send spam to begin with, is capable of selling their customer data to a network of scummy companies that will do the same thing. I think most of the "unsubscribe" links are there to fulfill some legal obligation. They don't do what they're supposed to do, and might in fact be making things worse for the person who clicks them. The only solution I've found…
My solution to spam emails is this: https://ahmedkaddoura.com/writing/hide-my-email I create a unique iCloud Hide My Email anytime I need to give out an email. The issue here was I signed up for my 24 Hour Fitness membership in person at the gym where the cell service was bad and I couldn't get the WiFI to work, so I begrudgingly gave the guy my real email. While I could have easily blocked their domain, I took it as…
Don’t they have a list unsubscribe header in the emails themselves? That’s effectively a requirement for senders of their size since Feb 2024.
Re: 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
#10> If you know someone on the 24 Hour Fitness engineering team, please share this with them. It's a one-line fix.
One man's bug is another man's feature.