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Re: Unsubscribe from all LinkedIn email in one click

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Twitter does this (automatically subscribes you to each new category of email) as well, and it infuriates me to no end.

They also started sending me push notifications telling me that people that I follow started following other people. I have no idea why they think I'd want to know that. It took probably ten minutes with their app to figure out how to disable that.

Please reveal what it is you did to disable those notifications.

Re: Unsubscribe from all LinkedIn email in one click

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They do, when a user marks an email as spam gmail pings the sender back and notifies them. I imagine this is most useful for the bulk email sending services.

gmail does not have a feedback loop

Gmail certainly does: it implements DKIM.

Re: Unsubscribe from all LinkedIn email in one click

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This is perfect. Nothing much else to say really. I am getting sick and tired of LinkedIn's spam and dodgy techniques when it comes to marketing. This should temporarily stop the spam until they decide to add more mail-out categories.

I cancelled my LinkedIn premium membership just before as well. As a premium user you still get spammed the same as a non-premium user and I can live without it. Vote with your wallet as they say. LinkedIn really need to re-valuate where they stand, you know a situation is desire when many people share a similar sentiment and you have to resort to using Javascript hacks to unsubscribe from email notifications, it shouldn't be this hard.

Re: Unsubscribe from all LinkedIn email in one click

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Besides the emails, what do you think could be improved?

I think LinkedIn is trying too hard to be more than what it is. It's the professional version of the town church. The town church used to record recording weddings, births and deaths. That's it. LinkedIn should be a record of hirings, leavings, new companies forming and old companies dissolving. Against the background of that basic information, people should be able to solicit me, freely, to come work for them - but…

I think LinkedIn has a pretty bring future as a business/industry news aggregator which will ride on top of the social platform they've built. Think of it as a BusinessInsider/Forbes/VentureBeat/TechCrunch replacement.

Already you're seeing LinkedIn exclusive editorials by guest writers, and although most of the articles in LinkedIn's feed suck right now, I hope they increase the quality soon (e.g. No more "5 ways to be a successful leader" type articles).

If they can capture quality content and deliver it in the right way then I think that will be successful and fuel more growth in their product and revenues.

I've talked to Reid Hoffman about this, and his answer to what LinkedIn wants to grow up to be is something along the lines of "We've built this social platform which is successful + continues to grow, and that opens up a whole wealth of opportunities to build products/services around it [...]"

I think this is the right path for the company, but what's going to matter is execution. So far they haven't instilled confidence in their execution (What happened to their purchase of Pulse? Their aggregations haven't gotten any better....etc.)

Re: Unsubscribe from all LinkedIn email in one click

#67
This is nice, LinkedIn are infuriating. My startup is in the email space and we have a very strong opinion against sending spam and providing genuine unsubscribes. Unsubscribing someone is easy, there's no excuse except that they don't want to. Keep adding them to spam as their ESP probably has a feedback loop and it could affect their sending reputation eventually.

Re: Unsubscribe from all LinkedIn email in one click

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post #62

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gmail does not have a feedback loop

Gmail certainly does: it implements DKIM.

DKIM is not a feedback loop. A feedback loop is when someone hits spam on one of your emails, the provider lets you know what message caused the user to hit spam. If you have a unique message id or something else in the email encoded in you can tell who it was and not send them any more emails.

Re: Unsubscribe from all LinkedIn email in one click

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I left linkedin a long time ago but I still get emails when someone wants to connect. I must have opted out of those a dozen times! Nope, still get 'em. Also, pedant speaking here, "in one click" isn't really an accurate description of this process.

I have postfix reject anything from invitations@linkedin.com.

Though requires running your own mail server.

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