I just report spam and block these types. It’s a them problem, not a me problem.
If it has been particularly frustrating for me, I’ll even go out of my way to block the whole domain.
Report spam and block. They’ve lost emailing privileges.
I’ve seen many a clutched pearl at the suggestion of doing this.
Fuckin, if it’s a problem for me to treat emails I don’t want like that, then they need to stop sending so goddamn many. I get maybe 5 emails a week in actually looking for, and that’s extremely generous. 5 a month would be just as believable.
I probably get 100+ emails a week.
Think of your inbox as a garden. You must tend your garden or weeds will spring up.
The only ones upset at your approach are the problem anyway.
100/week? I just checked my personal and work inboxes for yesterday (Jan 2), and recieved 93 emails.
I have had 35 so far today (its 9.30am in my time zone)
Block, report spam/phishing
Maybe I am ignorant, but report to who?
I guess below in another comment that was answered. Send it to their registrar.
With a lot of people using free email services, most have some report button. What this does is flag the specific email as potential spam that you specifically do not want to see. With enough people doing that, the probability of the email and subsequently the source domain being spam and spam generators goes up. High probability means the emails may end up in the spam folder without hitting your inbox.
There’s a bit of fine tuning email marketing can do to mitigate that, like not sending emails too frequently. But that’s not a passive thing they can do, which is why there are teams devoted to email marketing specifically at some companies.
The worst thing for a marketeer is to be dumped in spam. No one will ever see it or any future emails.
Yeah I had to do this to a couple lists because I have a very simple email address that gets added to things all the time, but if it’s really irritating to unsubscribe, I just click my email settings to report spam or fishing, and that usually creates an automatic filter for that center so you never get bothered again.
You can manually create a filter in the settings to send all their messages to trash or spam if you want as well.
Yeah, I would have to report it to the sender. I don’t use any of the large public emails like yahoo, Google, or microsoft.
The instructions also list an FTC form for you to use.
Yeah any emails that don’t have a simple Unsubscribe link, just hit Report Spam. It’s surprisingly common.
That’s one of the most unethical ways to have users unsubscribe, and it’s done on purpose.
Companies who do that should get DOS attacked until their email infrastructure crumbles.
Everyone to their stations!
report as spam in gmail works better :)
It seems that the user still wants to use stub hub. They just dont want the torrent of marketing emails. Marking as spam might block emails they actually want.
The user says they forgot their password and don’t care, it’s unlikely they still use the platform.
It seems i was mistaken. My bad.
Mark as spam. Simple
Seems like they’re going to be blacklisted from Gmail if they continue like this. From February all mass mail directed to Gmail need to have single click unsubscribe or they’ll ban the server and reject all mail (even legit mails)
This is where you say you are living in the EU and have the right to be removed
https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/individuals/know-your-rights/right-erasure-articles-17-19-gdpr
Also copy paste this example letter
https://www.datarequests.org/blog/sample-letter-gdpr-erasure-request/
I got an email that was spam/marketing for one of my accounts. This is a copy paste:
This notification email has been sent to you as part of your REDACTED benefits. You will continue to receive these benefit notification emails even if you have requested not to receive commercial emails for this account.
Needless to say, I simply called and cancelled my account. When asked why, I told them that I don’t want spam emails from them for marketing or for “benefits”.
Without knowing the details, it’s hard to say. Yes this could be a spam tactic but various industries have laws saying they have to contact their users/clients/customers if they make a change- e.g. your bank has to notify you of new charges.
Not a defense of someone using this to scam, but an explanation of why that language might be used if legitimate.
It was for them having a sale and giving me an extra $50 off if I use my card.
It’s called StubHub because this feels as bad as stubbing your toe.
Same thing happened to me with monster jobs. I just blocked their emails.
Oh monster was the worst! I signed up well over 10 years ago and had unsubscribed several times over multiple months once I found a job. They still would send emails 5 days a week. I blocked them and will never ever use them again because of their awful spam. If anyone’s curious, I did not find the job through monster.
If this was Europe you could sue them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Glad this is highly illegal in the European union.
Doesn’t stop this happening to you though.
I send out tonnes of GDPR threats to these companies and I wonder if they go anywhere
They will at a minimum once you forward a CC complaint to the GDPR office.
Agreed. Don’t make a threat - just make the GDPR complaint. Inform the company if you want. How many times have you remembered to follow up on one of those threats to see if you should still make a complaint?
What part is illegal? I’m not aware of any laws specifically requiring you not to provide authentication when accessing unsubscribe settings.
Not written in a direct, full, and literal sense, only because it’s difficult to legally define a login, but:
“The data subject shall have the right to withdraw his or her consent at any time […] It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.”
Articles that interpret this directive also say that one expectation of this wording is that users should not need to log in. Arguably, registering by scribbling a random password is “easy”. Remembering that password later is “hard”.
Personally, I’d consider remembering the credentials for the service you’ve signed up for to be easy. I think it’s unfair to expect companies to treat their users as utter idiots.
That’s not to say this specific company isn’t breaking any laws (least they could do is add a login form to the page you’re linking to), but I find it a bit much to expect companies to design a secure single-token login system that integrates with their newsletter system; such unnecessary technical design expectations only increase the risk that a badly designed authentication system causes a data leak.
The CAN SPAM act is a lot clearer in this sense, it spells out the “single web page” requirement. I suppose you may as well design for that, but I’m not a fan of the infatilisation of internet users.
It’s not infantilization. These bills are designed to prevent “one more hoop” design by the company to make it too annoying to unsubscribe. Your position assumes good faith behaviour by the company with the newsletter. That is absolutely not a given.
The point of the easiness of unsubscription isn’t to make it possible for total idiots. It is to make it frictionless.
Take law - since this technically is on the same subject. So, so much of the legal profession now (unfortunately) involves putting up so many rudimentary roadblocks that people are compelled to settle and agree. Firms suing small companies with single attorneys will send massive archives of paper during discovery. They’ll file an irrelevant “first amendment” claim to defend their actions, all to make sure people’s time is occupied. Even if the opposing council is qualified to respond to and dismiss every single petulant thing, it will take up their precious time, stressing them and reducing how long they have to form an argument.
Law practice has actually similarly introduced legislation to prevent frivolous lawsuits and paperwork overload. On the idea of newsletters, it’s especially important for it to be easy because many people have been erroneously signed up for MASSES of them. It should be; Click, Click, gone.
Mark it as spam.
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What I do with these sometimes is replying to the e-mail itself with a message that has only the text unsubscribe in all caps. Might add that to the subject as well.
Sometimes it works.
You mean you like to verify that you are seeing and paying attention to their marketing emails?
I used to manage an email queue that collected both GDPR requests and responses to marketing emails and saw a fair number of those. Many companies have it setup to forward responses to marketing emails to a support queue somewhere, but some don’t
