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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

26: unsubscribe from the email promos that the site automatically signed you up to even though you didn't check the Subscribe to newsletter box, which requires you to log into the site and find and uncheck all the boxes in the "contact settings".

[-] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

26a: Note that they will simply add more categories over time and helpfully subscribe you to each of the new ones whether you ever visit the site again or not.

[-] moody@lemmings.world 22 points 1 year ago

Unsubscribe? You mean report spam

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unsubscribe is for real suckers only. When someone clicks that I always imagine some goon elbowing the guy next to him and saying something like, "look Keith we got another" unsubscriber" over here!" With a big goofy grin on his face.

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

If the email is from a legitimate business, they must have an unsubscribe button and it has to work. They get a little time before they are required to process the request, 10 days in the US, but I've usually seen it take effect immediately.

Don't click the unsubscribe button in an actual spam email.

[-] moody@lemmings.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you didn't ASK to receive emails from them, it's spam and it should be reported as such.

Fuck unsubscribing from things I didn't subscribe to.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure what you mean about legitimate businesses. I don't really trust any of them anymore. Those unsubscribe pages are still full of traps and they often don't keep you off new mailings that they can say you didn't explicitly unsubscribe from because this is a new newsletter that they thought you might be interested in. If I didn't opt-in, it's spam, and I'd like to think that maybe me labeling it as such might contribute to filters picking it up for someone else too.

[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago

I also feel like the goon then adds you to more mailing lists

[-] dzso@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Report spam? You mean deactivate single-use email.

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