Unsubscribe link from their emails takes you to this. You then to need to sign in with email and password (I don't know my password) to manage preference. I just want all out!
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!
Block, report spam/phishing
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 any emails that don't have a simple Unsubscribe link, just hit Report Spam. It's surprisingly common.
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.
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.
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".
It's called StubHub because this feels as bad as stubbing your toe.
You need a platinium level subscription to be able to unsubscribe. The entry level subscriptions don't have that option. Upgrade now for a small monthly payment of 49.99!
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Mark it as spam.
This is why I use email aliases.
Turn the email on and off at will; I know some services like Firefox Relay Premium will block promotional emails while allowing other emails.
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
Reporting as spam is your best tool. That keeps you from seeing them and hurts their deliverability which they VERY MUCH care about.
Look into email aliases.
https://proton.me/blog/what-is-email-alias
At least it loads. Some of the links i click to unsubscribe just won't work at all
Some of those are actual spam, and their domain has been shut down due to their spamming.
Those are usually the illegal or low value adverts - dick pills and "luxury watches"
Yep Report Spam in that case.
Set up a small raspberry pi device that is.programmed to constantly spam them with nonsense emails and give it a decent battery and casing and hide it near somewhere with public wifi.
Maybe tie it into that Wisdom of Deepak Chopra text generator or something.
If you can even find an email to spam, all you're going to do is get the IPs of the public wifi blacklisted. Whatever department at StubHub is sending those emails will probably never even know.
World of Wartank and Warship for me
Btw, be careful that you only unsubcribe from services/pages you actually subcribed to or have a login there.
The others are fake to get to know that this address is alive and send you even more spam/sell that data point.
A bit of a devil's advocate: requiring a login prevents someone from unsubscribing a user who actually wants to receive the messages.
I just report spam and block these types. It's a them problem, not a me problem.
Never trust anyone who thinks 'traffics' or 'emails' is a correct noun.
Github does the same. You can't unfollow threads without logging in.
Microsoft has really messed up GitHub. Logs you out automatically if you haven't visited in a few days, constantly asks you to verify your 2FA, and the new feed makes it extremely difficult to track engagement on your own projects.
The worst one for me is that they allow you to view your recovery keys any time - IMO this is a really bad practice, recovery keys should only be shown once after a user has set up 2FA
Probably going to move to Codeberg since I'm seeing a lot of projects making the jump over there, but the real solution IMO is a federated version control system
A few weeks ago, I got a new laptop, and GitHub just denied me logging in. I had to use the recovery code. I was extremely angry because I entered the 2FA codes right, and it always just said unable to login.
Silly you. There's a saw, and a chain traping your leg. You know what to do. You have one hour before your pretty thermite necklace detonate. Good luck.
Never click an unsubscribe link.
They are used to confirm your email address is active, which sell for more to spammers.
Just mark the sender as spam, if your mailserver is any good, it should auto block senders whom are tagged like that too much.
Some spam probably does this, some probably does not. As mentioned, tracker pixels can also confirm, but either way if the message was delivered to your inbox with no bounceback, even without opening it the sender can infer it is active.
That said, a "legit" company domain like StubHub should be safe to click on (as long as you are careful it's not a spoofed domain) and unsubscribe.
As mentioned, tracker pixels can also confirm
Good email clients block external images by default.
Great email clients let you view external images but block trackers. FairEmail does this for example.
In EU at least they're required by law to have working unsubscribe links that actually unsubscribe you, otherwise they risk getting huge fines, i understand that in California things are not too far from this but no idea about the details
This is the case across the whole US, as part of some legislation called the "CAN-SPAM act". I think the person you're replying to is talking about fake unsubscribe links in malicious emails.
Just mark the sender as spam, if your mailserver is any good, it should auto block senders whom are tagged like that too much.
It's extremely unlikely that any email provider would block a big service like Stubhub.
If it's a sender you've done business with and just don't want emails from any more then the courteous thing to do is use the Unsubscribe link.
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)