Re:How to Avoid Spam Filters
by xenophonf on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @05:18PM
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I always hear people claim this, and yet I've never signed up to TechTargetWatch or whatever the hell these people call themselves.
And curiously, they're always emailing a spamtrap.
And as soon as I unsubscribe from TechTargetWatch, I start getting spam from WatchTechTargets, to whom I've also never subscribed, and who also deliver to the same spamtrap address.
But never mind that, I have a rather more paranoid perspective on not using the unsubscribe link. Clicking through to that unsubscribe page...
- indicates that the email address is valid
- indicates that the email address goes to a person
- affords the opportunity to set a tracking cookie or fingerprint the browser
- associates the tracking cookie/browser fingerprint with a person
And curiously, they're always emailing a spamtrap.
And as soon as I unsubscribe from TechTargetWatch, I start getting spam from WatchTechTargets, to whom I've also never subscribed, and who also deliver to the same spamtrap address.
But never mind that, I have a rather more paranoid perspective on not using the unsubscribe link. Clicking through to that unsubscribe page...
- indicates that the email address is valid
- indicates that the email address goes to a person
- affords the opportunity to set a tracking cookie or fingerprint the browser
- associates the tracking cookie/browser fingerprint with a person
No thanks.