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.

Hiro8811 ,

Why not use a fake email. I personally use duckduckgo an it gets redirected to my mail after they run some checks on the mail. I don’t really care since I only use it for spam

funkless_eck OP ,

I have plenty of fake email options - but one assumes that when communicating with your landlord, bank, lawyer, employer etc… one should use ones primary address

Hiro8811 ,

Yeah I see what you mean. That is fucked up. I’m gonna run off tracks but I so recommend Proton mail, you can make Google accounts forward it to Proton and what’s nice is that proton dosent load attachments unless you want to, there’ll be a empty place but only words will get displayed. Not helping in any way but I do wanna give them a shootout

funkless_eck OP ,

I have three of my own domains with wildcard forwarding, a 33mail account and a bunch of spare Gmail, yahoo and Hotmail addresses

CrayonRosary , (edited )

Property mgmt company changed without our input

You think you deserve input on what property manager your landlord chooses to run their property? Know your place, peasant.

No, for real. It’s ridiculous to think you’d have any input on that.

Darkassassin07 ,
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca avatar

My employer only sends important notices such as changes to medical benefits and how you access them; via the same email they spam me with ads, coupons, random imternal job offers from across the country…

I had blocked it after 13 spam emails, not knowing its also the official channel for important shit as well.

hark ,
@hark@lemmy.world avatar

As if the high rent is not enough income for these greedy fucks.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

I like how they say they’re “exclusive” offers, when in reality it’s whatever offers they could find that pay the highest commission.

intensely_human ,

We’ve carefully curated this pile of junk mail for you

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Speaking of carefully curated junk mail, I feel like I’m the only person that actually uses both Valpak coupons and the coupons on the back of supermarket receipts. There’s good coupons for local businesses in there!

intensely_human ,

To be fair, it is actually a valuable economic service to predict which ads will be most relevant to which customers. Assuming a rational consumer that is. An irrational consumer can be mis-served by being shown ads for things he doesn’t need, but a rational one only benefits from some third party making effort to locate ads they’ll likely respond to.

Advertisement is just networking for market information. It’s a problem when people get badly influenced, but that’s a corrupted side path. The default path is a person being connected with useful information that increases the expected net present value of their money. It changes the decision tree, and the new tree resolves to a higher expected value.

Assuming the decider’s ability to make optimal decisions on any given tree, of course.

onion ,

Scour the internet for newsletter signups and enter your landlords email

itslilith ,
@itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Or just use mailbait.info

pedz ,

My landlord is a multimillion dollar faceless company that sends me offers for a reduction on rent if I refer someone else. They have partnerships with other giant businesses and send me coupons for other companies. They push tenants towards a particular ISP. They amass personal data and seem to share it.

They want to make it seem like added value, but as a tenant, it feels like you’re just another consumer to be sold something. They send me so much spam…

thecrotch ,

You badly need an email client that doesn’t automatically load pictures

LunchEnjoyer ,
@LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world avatar

Yikes, that is truly disgusting.

FartsWithAnAccent ,
@FartsWithAnAccent@kbin.social avatar

Actually, no, at second glance, these fucks appear to be doing it intentionally. I missed the pay rent link.

everett ,

Mark the spam as spam.

naticus ,

Report it to spamcop.net and/or dnsbl.info so they actually get thrown into email blacklists.

funkless_eck OP ,

I unsubscribed but there was no granular options - it’s just in or out, so hopefully they can still send me actual emails / useful BACN outside of marketing spam

everett , (edited )

Unsubscribing is the polite option, but this obviously isn’t what you signed up for. I wouldn’t unsubscribe, just mark as spam. If enough people do and they start having deliverability issues of important emails, maybe they’ll change their ways… but probably they won’t.

edit: They’re probably not sophisticated enough to have separate lists, so you may have unsubscribed from everything, at least if you mark as spam you can find their important emails in your junk folder.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Unsubscribes can also affect deliverability. If they’re using one of the major services like Sendgrid, Mailchimp, etc. for their marketing emails, those services keep track of unsubscribes along with the reason, and flag customers that have an unusually high number of people unsubscribing, especially if you select the “I never subscribed to this list” option when unsubscribing.

Blackout ,
@Blackout@kbin.social avatar

They sharing life changing deals to you and still no tip with your rent this month. Poor landlord 😢

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

This hell we built is exhausting

JoMomma ,

Can we ask the real questions here? Like, why is that person wheelbarrowing those kids away and where did he dump them?

HonkTonkWoman ,

No one knows! That’s what happens when you click the maintenance request link.

Some say the kids are building new apartments for the new ownership. Others think the kids go into the lasagna served at the holiday tenant gathering.

TurtleJoe ,
@TurtleJoe@lemmy.world avatar

That’s actually pretty convenient; my old landlord always charged a fee for large furniture/appliance/child removal.

Dran_Arcana ,

Hey now, lets not exaggerate and hyperbolize. There are types of non-ad data in this message. “Hello!” isn’t an ad. Neither are the links for “Pay Rent” or “Request Maintenance”. By pixel count that has to be at least 3% of the message!

Also, I’m sure there’s a tracking pixel somewhere, probably embedded in the CDNs for those images so that they can know when and where you opened this message, what type of device your on, etc. That’s creepy tracking data not advertising! (yet)

Kids these days, never happy with anything.

funkless_eck OP ,

then I’ll reduce my tip by 3%! they’re only gonna get 22% tip on my $5000/month for my 1 bed 0 bath I share with 9 other people

Good_morning ,

Hey shush, you’re gonna get us evicted, only 3 of us are on the lease!

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