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No one-click unsubscribe? It's spam.
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#32Linked-In has the spammiest email protocol out of any service I have ever used. Even after signing-in there is no one-click-to-unsubscribe button (they split it into about 12 scattered categories), and they create new categories periodically and opt you in to them. This is downright deceitful. Pro tip : change your email to one that you never use. It literally came down to doing this or deleting my Linked-in account-…
change your email address with them to myoriginalusername+linkedin@whatever.com Filter with gay abandon.
Came to leave this comment, not disappointed someone beat me to it.
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#33Linked-In has the spammiest email protocol out of any service I have ever used. Even after signing-in there is no one-click-to-unsubscribe button (they split it into about 12 scattered categories), and they create new categories periodically and opt you in to them. This is downright deceitful. Pro tip : change your email to one that you never use. It literally came down to doing this or deleting my Linked-in account-…
You can also create filters to manage such emails so it doesn't clutter you're inbox, but still lets you see them if you want.
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#34Dropbox did this recently with an email titled "Never email big files again! Share with a Dropbox link"
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#35As a developer, I like to follow the rule of thumb that requests that have a persistent effect (such as changing your subscription options) should be HTTP POST rather than HTTP GET. This is in order to avoid mistakes generated by automated tools or systems which pre-fetch/cache/scan/analyze content. As such, my unsubscribe links lead to a page containing a one sentence summary of what you are about to do, and a form…
It's slightly less fast, but I don't mind this. Provided you don't make me remember which email address you're sending to and just autofill it, I'll happily click all the one-button forms you like.
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#36It's in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act You can’t charge a fee, require the recipient to give you any personally identifying information beyond an email address, or make the recipient take any step other than sending a reply email or visiting a single page on an Internet website as a condition for honoring an opt-out request. http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus61-can-spam-act-complia...
I would not interpret "visiting a single page" to mean one-click. Of course, I agree that one-click is the right way to do things.
It is the spirit if not the letter of the law. Nobody intended someone to use 50 AJAX steps on a single page to skirt the law.
Re: No one-click unsubscribe? It's spam.
#37Linked-In has the spammiest email protocol out of any service I have ever used. Even after signing-in there is no one-click-to-unsubscribe button (they split it into about 12 scattered categories), and they create new categories periodically and opt you in to them. This is downright deceitful. Pro tip : change your email to one that you never use. It literally came down to doing this or deleting my Linked-in account-…
Not only that, but they send you emails even after you have deleted your account.
They repeatedly send you emails even if you don't have an account.
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#38Bonus Points: If I haven't logged into your site in over 2 weeks and/or opened an email, consider me unsubscribed and stop sending me emails.
Re: No one-click unsubscribe? It's spam.
#39It's in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act You can’t charge a fee, require the recipient to give you any personally identifying information beyond an email address, or make the recipient take any step other than sending a reply email or visiting a single page on an Internet website as a condition for honoring an opt-out request. http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus61-can-spam-act-complia...
I love that, but unfortunately CAN-SPAM is a US law, not a universal law.
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#40Companies that make me sign in to unsubscribe, stop doing this.
If I click an unsubscribe link and the company wants me to sign in, I mark it as spam in gmail.
If I didn't explicitly opt in (checking an unchecked checkbox, emailing someone and saying "please subscribe me to your ads", etc.), I mark it as spam.