How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work?

Re:How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work? by mrob on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:38PM (#23354568)

The term "double-opt-in" is spammer propaganda. It falsely implies that getting your email added to a spammer's mailing list, regardless of how it happened, is "opting in".

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Re:How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work? by realityking on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:51PM (#23356525)

Then it is a remarkably good piece of propaganda as it has the blessing of, at least, German courts.

https://www.telemedicus.info/urteile/Wettbewerbsrecht/Werbun...

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Re:How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work? by zbentley on Saturday May 30, 2020 @08:25AM (#23360666)

It's ... not? At all?

That term is super widely used in spam-prevention, commercial email sending, transactional email sending, and inbox provider industries.

You can disagree with the phrasing if you want, but that doesn't make it propaganda--not any more than the Orwellian naming of the "No Child Left Behind" act makes the law itself propaganda.

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Re:How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work? by mrob on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:42PM (#23362402)

It absolutely is propaganda. If a single verification of consent is "double opt in", then zero verification must logically be "single opt in". The evil option is reframed as good, and the neutral option is reframed as extra good. Anybody who uses it is either ignorant or a spam sympathizer.

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Re:How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work? by geofft on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:11PM (#23354911)

OK, fine, maybe I shouldn't use the term. Pretend I said, "I run a mailing list where I want to make absolutely sure that nobody is receiving mail without their active and informed consent and that nobody is unsubscribed without their active consent either." I think my question still stands?

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