Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

Re:Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscri... by iamacyborg on Saturday November 07, 2020 @08:53AM (#25015076)

As someone who's been doing email marketing for a decade, you'd be subscribed by how many people are more than happy to sign up to a mailing list without being "coerced" as you describe.

We get that you don't like marketing email, but plenty of people do.

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Re:Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscri... by oliwarner on Saturday November 07, 2020 @06:22PM (#25020793)

It's not just my bias. I'm sensitive to it, but I'm regularly added to mailing lists despite my express lack of consent. We all are.

I also regularly walk clients back from doing exactly the same thing. The perks in marketing don't give a flying French Fancy what the law is. They care about absolute volume.

I did a little exercise last year, took a screenshot of every order form I submitted. I reported a dozen companies to the ICO last year, with documented examples of companies wilfully ignoring GDPR regulations.

Yeah, I'm also fun at parties.

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