I tweeted this exact thing to them last month and they basically acted surprised I didn’t like it.
WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?
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#33Mailbox providers should build in an unsubscribe feature that actually works on a local level. Essentially which creates a filter and doesn’t show you the emails. It’s optimistic to let the spammers handle the unsubscribe feature. AI is getting good enough to have two buttons “unsubscribe from all” and “unsubscribe to emails like these”
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#34We desperately need a revised CAN-SPAM[1], with two additional fangs: additional prohibitions on these sorts of dark patterns (designed to exhaust users into submission), and the opening of individual standing against companies that spam (so that individuals can directly sue these misbehaving companies rather than waiting for the FTC to un-capture itself). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003
We desperately need to overhaul how the average mail provider works. We need unique email addresses every time we sign up for an account that can then be disabled. I do this with fastmail though it's a little annoying to spend 20 seconds to create a new alias every time. At last count I had something like 470 aliases. Probably at least 40 disabled ones after receiving emails I didn't opt in for, or I disabled immedia…
1password has an integration now with Fastmail that automatically generates one-off email addresses for you when registering on a website.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
iOS only lets you turn off bluetooth for a day at a time.
When turned off using control center. You can still completely disable it within settings. ( https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208086 )
On Mac there is a "control center" that is not the system's settings? What is it for?
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#36We desperately need a revised CAN-SPAM[1], with two additional fangs: additional prohibitions on these sorts of dark patterns (designed to exhaust users into submission), and the opening of individual standing against companies that spam (so that individuals can directly sue these misbehaving companies rather than waiting for the FTC to un-capture itself). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003
We desperately need to overhaul how the average mail provider works. We need unique email addresses every time we sign up for an account that can then be disabled. I do this with fastmail though it's a little annoying to spend 20 seconds to create a new alias every time. At last count I had something like 470 aliases. Probably at least 40 disabled ones after receiving emails I didn't opt in for, or I disabled immedia…
Do you prefer not to use a catchall alias[1] to prevent someone from just sending mail to garbage12345@yourdomain or for some other reason? I also use unique addresses for every website account I have but with the catchall, I don’t need to spend the 20 seconds to create the alias. It’s just automatically there. I can’t think of any issues I’ve had by using the wildcard alias.
[1]: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277942-Ca...
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#37Maybe this should be posted to https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign . It is a waste of time trying to educate assholes, avoid them.
>reddit
no thanks
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#38The people who use NextDoor deserve the worst experience on the Internet
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#39Mailbox providers should build in an unsubscribe feature that actually works on a local level. Essentially which creates a filter and doesn’t show you the emails. It’s optimistic to let the spammers handle the unsubscribe feature. AI is getting good enough to have two buttons “unsubscribe from all” and “unsubscribe to emails like these”
They do. If you mark something as spam, gmail should put all future emails from the sender in spam. On Fastmail they make it a little clearer by calling the option “block sender” which puts all their emails in trash.
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#40Just use sub-addressing, then discard all emails send to that address.