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Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

wipasoda @lemmy.dbzer0.com

1y ago

In a world full of spam, and then you read this

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Report as spam and unsubscribe. If they send you more emails they are in violation of the law for the canned spam act.
- That last part doesn't sound right but I wish it did.
  
  Why doesn't it sound right? They are required by law to both have an unsubscribe button and to honor you opting out.
  https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/can-spam-act-compliance-guide-business
- they are an awesome company though

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
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  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.

Sounds like a joke to me? I do not get the infuriating part.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  It doesn't help that their copy reads like a 2000s era "TeH pEnGuIn oV dEwM" cringepost
  
  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."

Might be in a different (though closely related) category but this brings to mind confirmshaming.
- This is definitely an example of that.
  
  It's the sort of thing where the term seems like a 90% fit but I don't know if there's one that's more specific. Something like a confirm-threat but a very minor one.

Pretty bold for a company with an address in mailing list range.

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.

That's not much of a threat. You could always block Jeff's number.

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.

A true thigh-slapper, that.

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- does involuntary opt-in count?
  
  It does, and under sane laws, it’s also illegal.

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