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Personally, I'd be really uncomfortable opening up a service like this with underage family members involved. Why not MTurk?
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Hi @pyepye, I tried signing up on your website but I have the following error : An uncaught exception happened while servicing this request link to a screenshot : https://imgur.com/a/ph8RrO1
Thanks for the heads up @niea_11 For some reason a deployment failed due to a dependency which caused some issues. Could you please try again and let me know if it now works?
Another solution is to create a different email address for each website/newsletter. This can be done quite easily with services like SimpleLogin or 33mail. This solution also makes this harder to track you online, therefore protect your privacy.
My email is my hn@gmail so I get all kinds of random receipts, confirmations, etc m. Because these companies consider them valid communications with a customer it is impossible to unsubscribe
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This is illegal in the US under the CAN-SPAM act, with severe penalties. No legitimate company will send marketing emails without an opt-out. If you don’t want to engage them, you should mark the email as junk. This flags the email in their email provider. If their rate of junk email increases too high, they lose their ability to send email through that provider.
Afaik, there is no automated information flow to the provider. It kind of works, but differently than you said. Let's say, you flag a mail on GMail as spam. GMail's filters will learn: both the spam filter for your inbox as well as a shared filter. If the shared filter learned that all mails from that provider are junk, then gmail may not accept any more mails from that provider. But the provider is interested in his…
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Or just click the unsubscribe button myself? Is forwarding the email really any easier than unsubscribing yourself?
A fine option, which I also endorse. In all seriousness, here’s what I do to combat Insidious Mailing List Spam. It’s kinda simple. 1. Get one email address for friends and family. Never ever post it online. Never use it for any shopping or anything. This is your email address . There is no mailbox anxiety because you get one email a day to this address and it’s from your dad and you love him. 2. Get another one for…
Services which spam users in such a fashion are malicious.
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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…
Interesting. That means that Twitter's implementation is one that is against the law, as it required me to log in before I could unsubscribe. It also only unsubscribed me from "that type of email", so lo and behold, more spam arrived a few days later.
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you can NOT require login to change subscription settings And yet it happens all the time. Even Apple does it. I expect Apple’s lawyers have a better understanding of the rules than most people.
Or nobody is fighting them. Enforcement starts with a complaint to the "authorities"
This reminds me of an article maybe ten years back on how to a static email can change its appearance when it’s forwarded so as to hide the unsubscribe button so forwardees can’t unsubscribe (accidentally or otherwise) the forwarder. As I recall, there were a few different solutions that were each specific to the mail client doing the forwarding (using css that matches the DOM structure of the forwarded content). I t…
This one perhaps? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5327469 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20171003162605/https://litmus.co...