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Re:In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox by no_wizard on Monday January 29, 2024 @09:46AM (#39176816)
I think this is about confusing AI like that offered from gmail or iCloud email that will unsubscribe for you if you click on unsubscribe from their respective inbox / application. Fastmail offers this too.

I noticed there are times I have to do it manually and can't take advantage of auto unsubscribe because the button layouts are like this.

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Re:In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox by snowwrestler on Monday January 29, 2024 @09:59AM (#39176967)
The unsubscribe buttons in email clients are powered by a header that the email includes. Google and Yahoo just started requiring these for all bulk senders (they were previously a best practice only). It doesn’t rely on what the manual preferences page looks like.
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Re:In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox by louis-lau on Monday January 29, 2024 @09:03PM (#39185539)
This is just a standard unsubscribe header. It's added by the sender specifically for this purpose and has nothing to do with the UI you see. Not everything is AI, but it being the default assumption is funny to me.
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