[OC] Unsubscribe? Nope! We'll Just Add You To An "Unsubscribers" List!
[OC] Unsubscribe? Nope! We'll Just Add You To An "Unsubscribers" List!
I unsubscribed from a company's mailing list and then they added me to a new "unsubscribers" list and spammed me again. I then unsubscribed from that list and was added to another "unsubscriber" list. At least this new unsubscriber list was labelled "new". That makes it so much better. /s*
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In the US at least that is very much illegal, though I am going to guess this isn't in the US.
You'd guess right. Ironically, we have great consumer protection laws here and it's illegal here, too. But I doubt the authorities would do much without a flood of complaints.
And sadly, my Twitter/𝕏 thread with the company in private message is going nowhere. 😿
And sadly, my Twitter/𝕏 thread with the company in private message is going nowhere. 😿
Sometimes "friendly" "reminding" a company about the relevant laws does wonders, making them return such "display" of "attentiveness" in a more timely manner. (Translation: they reply faster if you threaten them with the specific law.)
In this case the Ley Federal de Protección al Consumidor, article 17, second paragraph got you covered:
El consumidor podrá exigir directamente a proveedores específicos y a empresas que utilicen información sobre consumidores con fines mercadotécnicos o publicitarios, no ser molestado en su domicilio, lugar de trabajo, dirección electrónica o por cualquier otro medio, para ofrecerle bienes, productos o servicios, y que no le envíen publicidad. Asimismo, el consumidor podrá exigir en todo momento a proveedores y a empresas que utilicen información sobre consumidores con fines mercadotécnicos o publicitarios, que la información relativa a él mismo no sea cedida o transmitida a terceros, salvo que dicha cesión o transmisión sea determinada por una autoridad judicial
Also illegal in the EU.
Just mark those as spam if you are using any big email providers. Causes much more headache for them and you don't need to play their find the correct unsubscribe button games
I've worked in automated marketing for close to a decade now. Use your inbox's report as spam function. It'll damage their sender rep resulting in more of their emails automatically going to spam and will usually add you to their application's system level unsubscribe list automatically. I usually do this if a company's preference center requires me to log in to global unsubscribe.
There are so many assholes like this that unless they're using MailChimp or similar (cloud platforms where this can't be done automatically) I don't even bother with unsubscribing. I just set the mail server to bounce any email from that domain.
I wish it were that simple. I use their actual product all the time and genuinely enjoy it. It's literally the best in the country. So I need the emails from their domain for my actual purchases. I just want to be deleted from their bloody advertisments!
I've found that changing my email address works better than unsubscribe sometimes. Just change it to a tagged address and set up a filter. Shields you against future sales as well.
All the Trump emails go rbos+fucktrump now. Probably a hundred a day. Unsubscribe did not work.
Also, Canadian. Incompetent jerks.
That ship has sailed, but you have to sign up with a mail account that offers throw away addresses (like yahoo! mail or others). They just put the mails from all throwaways also into you main mailbox. If later you can't ubsubscribe, you can just delete the throwaway. Only problem is, for replies you have to use the mail providers way (i.e. webmailer) so your client doesn't reply with your main address. But I found it very rare I reply to mails from subscriptions.
Many classical email clients have the option to edit the senders address while composing the email. If the mail server does not allow this you usually get an error message on sending.