I'm not sure I understand. If I wasn't going to use my email, why would I care if it unsubscribed or not? What's the difference between this and just using a fake email?
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#172Is there some way to add this as some kind of browser extension? I can totally see using this for people’s parents as long as they just get a big fat unsubscribe button in their UI.
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#173I'm not sure I understand. If I wasn't going to use my email, why would I care if it unsubscribed or not? What's the difference between this and just using a fake email?
I think you misunderstand. You don’t give out this email to websites. You forward an email from your inbox to them, and they’ll unsubscribe for you.
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#174The pricing for this is ridiculous. Far easier to just unsubscribe + report to spam + set a filter if that doesn't work. This takes almost no time for me currently because I unsubscribe diligently.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have been doing this for well over 10 years and can confirm the approach, with one small tweaks: The address for friends and family should be split in 2 - one for the really technologically literate ones, who will never do stupid crap with it like using it in a pinterest "Share this!" form, and one for everyone else (who must never learn you didn't give them "best" address because they're clueless). Also, if you ow…
You can also use the + for email adress, my.name+facebook@domain.com. No need to register another mail adress for each service. It can lead to problems logging in though, not everyone knows that + is a legal character in mail adresses.
Can also just get a catchall and forward everything to the same inbox, and then create folders based on the receiving email.
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#176All my emails that come from domains I have not whitelisted get thrown in the trash. Works pretty well. Same deal with my phone. Any private or unknown number gets the mail box which I never check and SMS trashed.
Ha, interesting approach :) I like the idea, but I wonder if it might trash too many non-spam emails for me. Have you had any problems with false-positives?
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#177You’re giving spammers too much credit. If the email doesn’t contain a clear unsubscribe email I just click Spam, because that’s what it is.
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#178As someone who’s responsible for sending emails, all of the comments about “marking it as spam is easier than unsubscribing” really make me cringe. For several reasons: 1. If you subscribe to a list then please please please take the time to locate the very clearly marked unsubscribe link, or use the one that gmail or your other email client shows. I spend a lot of time making sure it’s suuuper easy to unsubscribe. 2…
When I started teaching and my school email address was published on the school's website, I discovered the hell that is the ed-tech marketing machine. 90% of the spam I get from these sources, which are usually individual sales reps of medium to large companies, lack any unsubscribe link whatsoever. And these are firms with which I have zero relationship or transaction history.
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#179Btw, how specific is the American CAN-SPAM act in terms of how the unsubscribe link should work? In my country I sometimes get emails with unsubscribe links that require you to log in first, which can be a pain to pull out the credentials when you don't really remember signing up for it in the first place. Does CAN-SPAM specify, say, that an unsubscribe link 1)must not require a login? 2)must lead to completion of th…
Yes, what they're doing is illegal. [1] § 316.5 Prohibition on charging a fee or imposing other requirements on recipients who wish to opt out. Neither a sender nor any person acting on behalf of a sender may require that any recipient pay any fee, provide any information other than the recipient's electronic mail address and opt-out preferences, or take any other steps except sending a reply electronic mail message…
I think he's talking about signing into a preexisting account. It maybe be illegal to require you to sign up, but I don't think it's proven that requiring preexisting customers to sign in to a preexisting account to adjust their communication settings.
Personally I'm all for requiring an automation enabled unsubscribe header and double opt in (requiring a response from a subscription confirmation email to subscribe in the first place).
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#180Cool idea I suppose, but for $5/month wouldn’t I just not sign up to those mailing lists in the first place? Or get another email address? This doesn’t feel very sustainable.
I have my own domain with [anything]@mydomain.tld gets forward to my real address, so I generally use a unique email address for any service, retailer, mailing list etc. A password manager is a real benefit for this.
I've caught places that get hacked or sold their list and can filter them readily.
I think that this approach also helps reduce the attack surface from a hack as there is little to no reuse of credentials, but at N=1 I can't verify that. Maybe there's an oversight in my approach.