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Does anyone else get marketing emails despite unsubscribing dozens of times? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by that_leaflet@lemmy.world to c/gog@lemmy.world

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do not unsub. Mark as spam.

Why Not Both?

Email security and sanitation has been a huge part of my work for years.

There are a lot of "cool tips and tricks to minimize email spam" I've seen over the years. None of them ever seem to actually work. Same with phone spam. Everyone claims to have a magic bullet. I've yet to meet the person who can sincerely claim they don't get inundated with the shit one way or another.

The best tools for spam mitigation I've seen are

Brand new account (email/phone number/etc)
Service explicitly dedicated to doing the screening for you (Gmail has historically done an excellent job of keeping my Primary mail tab free of junk).
Abandoning the service entirely

But after that... we have a team at our office who tries to do spam mitigation and its only gotten worse year over year. Went on vacation for a week and when I got back 2 out of 3 emails (for a company address I only use internally) were [EXTERNAL] spam messages.

What I wouldn't give for an administration that unleashed the fucking NSA on spammers.

[–] Link@rentadrunk.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’ve gone with using an alias for most websites that means that if I start to get spam I know who sold my data and I can just delete the alias and not get the spam at all.

Also since I implemented rspamd on my email server I can honestly say I haven’t received any spam for months now. I can see that they are still getting sent but rspamd is rejecting them instantly so they never reach my inbox or Junk folder.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Also since I implemented rspamd on my email server I can honestly say I haven’t received any spam for months now. I can see that they are still getting sent but rspamd is rejecting them instantly so they never reach my inbox or Junk folder.

Thanks for the tip, I'll give that a look.

I've been meaning to set up a pi-hole for a while, now that so many of my Internet connected appliances have started to fill up with ads

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Many unsub links are disingenuous and serve to add, not remove, people to lists. If you recognize the sender and can correlate it with a purchase, you're safe to do both.

I opt for only spam and blackholing a domain if they're abusive.