> 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.
"The marketing team says fixing this bug will negatively impact their numbers, closing."
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
#32Re: 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
MacOS should have list unsub support from what I can see: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mail/mlhld3405766/mac
Dependent on the e-mail sender putting a header with a URL in the message: * https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8058
It’s effectively a requirement since Feb 2024 when Google and Yahoo rolled out guidelines related to it for bulk senders.
Re: 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
#34You didn't need ChatGPT to coauthor this article. Just use your own authentic voice. In 2026 no one likes GPT text anymore.
I would go so far as to say no one has ever liked GPT text.
Re: 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
#35Walmart has a toggle explicitly for product review emails. I have toggled it off. I still get weekly review emails. I now make it my mission to give 1 star to every product they email me about with a note that their unsubscribe is broken. Once, their CSR “escalated” my issue, but I never heard back. If you work in Walmart engineering, please fix the review unsubscribe.
Walmart should also fix where someone can create an account with someone else's email address (no email address validation).
Re: 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
#36You didn't need ChatGPT to coauthor this article. Just use your own authentic voice. In 2026 no one likes GPT text anymore.
1. I agree with you. The standard GPT voice is grating in its ability to use so many words without saying anything.
2. I also see it as a modern tower of Babylon. A linguistic equalizer of sorts.
Re: 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use Fastmail which allows me to have a catch-all with my own domain name. I don't need to set anything up to give out a unique email address I make up on the spot. I highly recommend this method.
The flipside of this is that it's extremely easy to spam you by just iterating new email addresses.
I think I got webmaster@ once.
Re: 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
#38If 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, big email providers like gmail should automatically mark all of their emails as spam by default until they fix it.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. CORS is only a browser concept. If you fire off requests from something that isn't a browser (e.g. curl or a python script or whatever) CORS won't do anything. Servers need to validate the origin of requests properly if that's a problem.
To expand on that, in case someone is interested:
The feature that was called is usually bundled in with cors, even if it strictly speaking isn't.
Allowed origins (what was meant) just validates the Origin header to make sure the API is called from a specific domain, and declines the request if not in the list.
The only way around that is not to send the unsubscribe request via the browser or proxy through a server, because the browser will always append the origin header according to the domain the user is on. Which if configured correctly and not proxied, would end in a http forbidden.
Whereas CORS would not even send the request I believe (but haven't verified), because thats essentially a browser feature, not server.
Re: 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
#40Walmart has a toggle explicitly for product review emails. I have toggled it off. I still get weekly review emails. I now make it my mission to give 1 star to every product they email me about with a note that their unsubscribe is broken. Once, their CSR “escalated” my issue, but I never heard back. If you work in Walmart engineering, please fix the review unsubscribe.
If anyone ever prompts me for a review or leaves a "rebate for review" card in the box, they get 1 star.