• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    Never click an unsubscribe link.

    They are used to confirm your email address is active, which sell for more to spammers.

    Just mark the sender as spam, if your mailserver is any good, it should auto block senders whom are tagged like that too much.

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      10 months ago

      In EU at least they’re required by law to have working unsubscribe links that actually unsubscribe you, otherwise they risk getting huge fines, i understand that in California things are not too far from this but no idea about the details

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        10 months ago

        This is the case across the whole US, as part of some legislation called the “CAN-SPAM act”. I think the person you’re replying to is talking about fake unsubscribe links in malicious emails.

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      10 months ago

      Just mark the sender as spam, if your mailserver is any good, it should auto block senders whom are tagged like that too much.

      It’s extremely unlikely that any email provider would block a big service like Stubhub.

    • dan1101@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      If it’s a sender you’ve done business with and just don’t want emails from any more then the courteous thing to do is use the Unsubscribe link.