How We Make Money at Stack Overflow

Re:How We Make Money at Stack Overflow by secretRubyDev on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @09:36AM (#12967136)

Tried it again with a different message and they said they'd try to unsubscribe me this time instead of opening a link.

Did try again yesterday with a different spam message and had it open a tab though; Zapier was spamming me with some newsletter so I clicked "Report Spam and Unsubcribe" yesterday and it opened up this in a new tab: https://zapier.com/app/settings/email?payload=REMOVED

Not really sure how it determines that -- I'll probably avoid clicking it just out of precaution and just report spam going forward though.

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Re:How We Make Money at Stack Overflow by rolandog on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:16AM (#12967617)

Using a lot of the privacy and security measures suggested in https://www.privacytools.io/ I sometimes do a gmail search using 'is:unread in:all unsubscribe' and click on most of the links I can find.

In some cases, Gmail automatically detects the unsubscribe link. If you click Gmail's unsubscribe link, it may give you a pop-up or it may automatically write an email to [email protected]. The pop-up usually leads to a form that you have to fill to 'update your newsletter preferences'.

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