• Izzy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Report as spam and unsubscribe. If they send you more emails they are in violation of the law for the canned spam act.

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    1 year ago

    Once a company wouldn’t stop emailing me despite unsubscribing. I sent them multiple emails with no response.

    Then I heard that if enough people mark a sender as spam, Google starts automatically considering them spam for everyone. I emailed them to let them know this, and told them if they didn’t remove me, I would mark them as spam which would affect them majorly.

    They replied to my email within minutes and told me I was unsubscribed and would never receive another email from them lmao

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      1 year ago

      Why would you issue a warning to a spammer instead of using the tools as intended, and just marking it as spam anyway? It clearly was. All you did here was pass the buck to someone else now.

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        1 year ago

        I did both, but I wanted my email removed from their system. I hate my spam box being filled up if I can help it.

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          1 year ago

          Understandable. I really doubt emails actually get removed from systems they get sold at that point and kept in the database that’s not actively used.

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        1 year ago

        Some email systems now won’t mark things as spam. They’ll have a popup window asking if you want them to help you unsubscribe from the shit. I about blew it when I saw that.

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          1 year ago

          Ive seen email systems with that, I’ve never seen an email system use that as a substitute for a Spam or junk flag however, I think maybe either you’re confused or have a really odd mail client

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            Gmail does it. Emails from mailing lists often have a header that specifies an email address you can email to unsubscribe (you just need to send an empty email with a subject of “unsubscribe” to the address). Gmail detects this header and asks you if you want to unsubscribe instead of marking as spam. If you do, it sends the unsubscribe email for you.

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              It usually is a footer, not a header, in my personal experience, these companies don’t want the word “unsibscribe” put in your head until they are done trying to reel you in with other things. It would be asinine to put it as a header.

              Also, the unsibscribe feature in Gmail is not the same as reporting as junk/spam, which Gmail still allows as an option.

              Unsubscribe option attempts to use the email address as you’ve already mentioned. The spam and junk flag automatically moves mail from those addresses into your junk folder. These are not the same things.

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                Sorry, I meant a header as in where the things like the subject line, servers it was sent via, etc. are stored. It’s a part of the email that isn’t user-visible. The unsubscribe email isn’t visible to the user unless you view the raw source of the email, but email clients can use it.

                I know marking as spam isn’t the same as unsubscribing. Gmail is trying to suggest unsubscribing instead of marking as spam which is reasonable (why mark it as spam when you could just unsubscribe and never get it in the first place?)

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                  1 year ago

                  You mark it as spam so that Google can add it to the metrics and stop allowing that account to spam everyone. If you just unsubscribe it only benefits you. If you flag it as spam it benefits everyone using the service.

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      Maybe it’s personal preference, but I absolutely DESPISE companies who put this sort of cutesy, look how fun we are, but also very passive aggressive, bullshit on their communications.

      This goes beyond mildly infuriating for me.

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        I’m with you on that one. It feels like old people trying to be hip and modern, it doesn’t feel genuine.

        I have also never understood why a company would want to actively pressure you into letting them send you things you don’t want. Isn’t it just wasted bandwidth to blast emails to people who won’t ever see or want them? So bizarre.

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        In this case, they’re literally threatening that if you unsubscribe, you will receive harassing texts forever. That goes a large step further than “Jeff the unicorn will be sad.”

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    1 year ago

    If someone pissed me off enough, I used to enter their email address every time a website wanted me to sign up for a newsletter. And if they asked me for my name while doing so, I’d enter a little message/insult for that person.

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    1 year ago

    Imagine if you broke up with someone or decided to stop being friend with them and they started acting like. Should be charged as stalking because “corporations are people too” so I can’t see why legally that can’t be the case.