Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click

Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by adtac on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:50PM (#20690092)

sometimes I try to mess with sites that ask for an email address for a mailing list by entering their own addresses: like "[email protected]", "[email protected]", etc.

let them deal with their own spam, then they'll understand.

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by mechamicro on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @06:45PM (#20691027)

That's a great idea. I'll try that next time. My version of petty revenge is to sign up with one of my throwaway Gmail accounts, and then mark them as spam as soon as the first newsletter rolls in. Hopefully, there's others doing the same and they'll be at least partially blacklisted.

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by dredmorbius on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @07:17PM (#20691219)

My go to has been "[email protected]" for years.

Or various Five Eyes addresses.

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by checktheorder on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @08:53AM (#20694990)

>My go to has been "[email protected]" for years.

I think I may make the effort to learn how to make a Firefox extension to automate this. Scrape "about us", "contact", etc. page in background for first email address, then autofill it into the email spam form. Boom, done.

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by beatgammit on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @08:41PM (#20691708)

This is great! I usually just do something like [email protected].

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by checktheorder on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @06:27PM (#20690887)

I like you.

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