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Re:Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirement... by josephg on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:22AM (#38083668)
Why do you bother fighting to unsubscribe properly with a company like that? I have a rule: I will try 1 time to legitimately unsubscribe, using the normal flow. If you keep sending me email after that, I will mark every email you send as spam and my email provider will stop delivering your mail.

I started doing this years ago after watching a talk by some Gmail devs on how they think of spam. They said they internally - controversially - redefined spam to be any email the user doesn’t want to receive. Well guess what? I don’t want to receive shitty marketing emails after I unsubscribe. If you send them to me, I’ll get you listed as a spammer.

I encourage everyone else to do the same thing. Life is too short to put up with this crap.

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Re:Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirement... by pests on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @03:15PM (#38089969)
I was taking a low-effort apporch of just unsubscribing from emails and newsletters as they came in. I saw a huge decrease in unwanted emails at first but NextDoor kept coming _no matter what_. Finnally in frustration I logged in, did half the above unsubscribing, then just deleted my account instead. I agree.
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