Ask HN: Do newsletters work? Why do websites push them so much?

Re:Ask HN: Do newsletters work? Why do websites push them so... by livelace on Monday August 01, 2022 @07:28AM (#32304500)

Email is a great thing, I use it heavily. Why newsletters doens't work for me:

1. I don't want to give my email. 2. I don't want to receive spam. 3. I don't like long letters with massive amount of different news (even in single domain).

In my view newsletters/digests take more time to read and I prefer to receive small pieces of topics more often (what I'm interested in specifically, not whole the editor choice) than to recevie bunch of them on weekly basis.

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Re:Ask HN: Do newsletters work? Why do websites push them so... by kroltan on Monday August 01, 2022 @02:23PM (#32310156)

1&2: Get yourself a domain, hand out [email protected]

Bonus points, you get independence from your email provider, so if Google or whatever decides to delete your account spuriously you don't die digitally.

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