Re:That 'unsubscribe' button may be a scam
by knorthfield on Sunday June 15, 2025 @10:38AM
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“Spam” as a neologism doesn’t have a widely agreed upon shared definition. The most apt would seem to be “email I don’t want”. But that’s not too helpful when third party gatekeepers are trying to mass assign status to an email. The same email could be unwanted by one person and very gratefully received by the next.
My standard definition is "email from a sender not in my whitelist"
Re:That 'unsubscribe' button may be a scam
by andrewinardeer on Sunday June 15, 2025 @02:53PM
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My employer demands I refer to this now as an "Allow List" and "Deny List', no more white list or black list, master drives or slave drives.
> try to count how many times you clicked “Delete” on junk or unwanted inbox messages
I don't understand that sentence in the article though. I click on "report spam" every time because that's what it is, even if it's a legitimate business that I used in the past. They use dark patterns to make you subscribe, but it's not honest, therefore -> spam.