Not OK Cupid – A story of poor email address validation
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#2> When I tried to unsubscribe using the one-click unsubscribe button in one of the emails, I was met with an error: “Something went wrong, please try again later.”
I want to start a blog which is just shaming every company whose most basic functions don't work and there's no recourse. It happens at least twice a day to me. Like a financial services management company whose website can't load my financial information. Or a jobs site that offers me premium subscription but its payments page is broken and I can't even notify them because there's no contact method. Or half the unsubscribes on the internet that never work, or require me to login to unsubscribe but it won't let me log in.
Does anyone work at Google? Why is it that, on my Samsung Android phone, when I pull up Google Search in the browser and click the search bar, if I don't wait at least 30 seconds, anything I type into the text bar not only is severely lagged, but then the letters appear in random jumbled order like the cursor is jumping? But if I wait it works fine?? Don't they make billions of dollars? Isn't this their whole product? What the hell is going on over there?!
The enshittification of technology is so extreme it feels like the whole web is constantly broken and literally nobody cares. If physical stores didn't exist and it was all online, I think riots would break out.
Re: Not OK Cupid – A story of poor email address validation
#3What's OKCupid's incentive?
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#4OkCupid is a terrible service. It disassociates real people who don't pay, and encourages fraudulent scams such as pig butchering. Bots are ridiculously easy to spot. You can end up in an endless loop of the same rejects unless you start blocking them.
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#5What's OKCupid's incentive?
Reputation of their addresses, IPs, etc.
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#6Spamazon did the same thing to me, someone signed up with my email and didn't verify and I couldn't recover the account because of the phone number associated with the account. Amazon was completely uncooperative.
Again, similar story with Commonwealth Bank of Australia which is even scarier since its a bank.
Re: Not OK Cupid – A story of poor email address validation
#7OkCupid is a terrible service. It disassociates real people who don't pay, and encourages fraudulent scams such as pig butchering. Bots are ridiculously easy to spot. You can end up in an endless loop of the same rejects unless you start blocking them.
On the other hand, I met my wife there and my two children wouldn’t exist if not for it. That said, the OkCupid of today and that of 2011 when I used it are probably quite different.
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#8Just mark the emails spam and forget about them. If everyone blogged about every spam email they got we’d get articles every day about spam emails everyone got.
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#9Companies that allowed others to create accounts with my email addresses:
PayPal, Apple, Credit Karma, Walmart (I just forwarded the email to legal@ and they took care of that instance very quickly, kudos to that at least). Edit: Forgot to add TD Bank - I actually opened a case with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency that regulates this bank.
Companies that spammed me in the last 24 hours because they don't validate emails addresses they add to their mailing lists (maybe there are accounts too, IDK):
NerdWallet, Ace Hardware, Take 5 Oil Change, Boot Barn, Tommy Hilfiger, The University of Scanton, Tractor Supply Company, Kutztown University, and a few small businesses.
Re: Not OK Cupid – A story of poor email address validation
#10Spamazon did the same thing to me, someone signed up with my email and didn't verify and I couldn't recover the account because of the phone number associated with the account. Amazon was completely uncooperative. Again, similar story with Commonwealth Bank of Australia which is even scarier since its a bank.
Same story for me and one of the major credit reporting companies.