Comment by hsbauauvhabzb
9 hours ago
Agree. The number of services i use where the apps continually add new marketing preferences which are defaulted to ‘enabled’ despite the fact that all other preferences are disabled is disgusting and clearly used by some companies to ignore people’s actual preferences.
LinkedIn is one of the worst offenders.
Whenever I login to LinkedIn I get "emails aren't getting through to your main email address".
1. That's by design, because you spammed the shit out of it. 2. Given that all I do is send them to /dev/null, HOW DO YOU KNOW?
They're checking to see whether any of the links they put in the emails are being fetched from their servers. It's stupid, but it works for most people.
I had a similar situation with SMS messages that were being sent to me with links informing me of status updates. These texts were useful, and I would go over to my real computer to check the web site. Then after a few days the text messages said "It looks like these messages aren't getting through to you, so we'll stop sending them." Which is also stupid, but it works for most people that load the web site on their phone from the SMS link. God help you if you have a dumb-phone.
You don't need the recipient to actually click on any visible link. Tracking pixels are the oldest trick in the book.
Probably tracking pixels in the emails
So they'd miss it anyway, my mail client is firewalled to only be able to access the mailserver.
I've been unsubscribed from a handful of newsletters because I don't read them. I replied to one and told them I did, even reached out on Twitter, but they still deleted me.
Have you noticed certain financial providers sending blatant marketing emails with no unsubscribe option and a comment along the lines of "these emails are not marketing"
This is illegal practice in the EU
Yet rife. My complaint to a major UK provide was rebuffed with the blatently false assertion that the email promoting a website refresh was an essential service email.
It's illegal in the US too as far as I'm aware. But you missed the part where they clearly stated "it's not marketing" ;)
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Yes, but not anywhere near as annoying for me at least.
control+alt+shift+Win+L
This never stops annoying me that it exists.
What the fuck lmao