There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

cupcakezealot ,
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report as spam in gmail works better :)

Mr_Dr_Oink ,

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.

IamAnonymous ,

Same thing happened to me with monster jobs. I just blocked their emails.

MoonRaven ,
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Glad this is highly illegal in the European union.

soggy_kitty ,

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

Appoxo ,
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They will at a minimum once you forward a CC complaint to the GDPR office.

Kyoyeou ,

World of Wartank and Warship for me

Showroom7561 ,

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.

cyberpunk007 ,

I just report spam and block these types. It’s a them problem, not a me problem.

ObsidianZed ,

If it has been particularly frustrating for me, I’ll even go out of my way to block the whole domain.

Octopus1348 ,
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It’s called StubHub because this feels as bad as stubbing your toe.

Z4rK ,

This is why I use a random email for every service that I can simply turn off on my end if they don’t behave.

kameecoding ,

You can also create aliases on most sites by adding a + and a suffix to your email

eg. Register with the site name

[email protected]

And then if you get fed up just set up a filter to put everything that comes to that specific address into the trash

But the thing to do is that if they dont send you a link that automatically undubscribes you is to mark it as spam

sebinspace ,

A lot of services won’t let you use the +, and it’s also trivial to get rid of the extension with Regex.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

You can also create aliases on most sites by adding a + and a suffix to your email

You can never disable those aliases, though. The best you can do is write a filter that sends them to trash. With a good email alias system, you can actually disable an alias, so that emails to it just bounce back.

Many services just strip out everything at the + so I instead have a catchall account use email addresses like [email protected]. For addresses that start getting spam, I add them to a config in rspamd that bounces them. (I self-host my email server)

NaoPb ,

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.

Trainguyrom ,

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

chiliedogg ,

You mean you like to verify that you are seeing and paying attention to their marketing emails?

Psychodelic ,

I was just dealing with this infuriating issue as well! Besides marking it spam, and giving the app a bad review, I was able to wvwbtuyfibd a setting near my email address/contact info that said something along the lines of don’t email me anything - it’s really not that obvious (I remember it was just text that was underlined).

Good luck finding it! Let me know if you don’t

Gestrid ,

I was able to wvwbtuyfibd a setting

… What?

corsicanguppy ,

Never trust anyone who thinks ‘traffics’ or ‘emails’ is a correct noun.

andrew_bidlaw ,

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.

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

Github does the same. You can’t unfollow threads without logging in.

lemann ,

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

stepanzak ,

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.

Varyk ,

Block, report spam/phishing

westyvw ,

Maybe I am ignorant, but report to who?

I guess below in another comment that was answered. Send it to their registrar.

Varyk , (edited )

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.

slurpeesoforion ,

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.

pantyhosewimp ,

For USA: consumer.ftc.gov/…/how-get-less-spam-your-email#r…

BottleOfAlkahest ,

Are there any lawyers taking on cases like this? Cause I’d consider donating to a patreon if someone was out there fighting the good fight

slazer2au , (edited )

Welp I do appear to be wrong.

What standing do they have?
The spam act says they need a functioning unsubscribe link to be compliant, judging by what OP said the link worked and the company wants to verify the account before unsubscribing.

lemann ,

lemmy.world/comment/6344610

LazaroFilm OP ,
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It should not ask for more information than the email address also it should be on a single page or a single email reply.

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