The unsubscribe confirmation screens are always like. “ARE YOU SURE??? THIS MIGHT BE A MISTAKE. IF YOU MADE AN ACCIDENTAL MISTAKE YOU CAN UNDO IT HERE!!!”.
You know why I’m here, you annoying fuck.
You know why I’m here, you annoying fuck.
Do you though? Are you sure? Positive? Pinkie promise? Before you answer that, please let us know why you’re unsubscribing:
- I have mental health issues
- I want to deprive myself from these amazing offers and deals
Pleass to confirm you want to unsubscribe give us an email address we might or might not flood with spam or sell to some chinese data harvesting company
Please log in to update subscriptions settings.
I assume you copy pasted this from cards against humanity, cause that sounds like something they would do ironically
No, I cooked it up all by myself with my thinkbrain
It’s a dark pattern. Some % of people will drop without properly reconfirming, so they avoid some unsubs.
It should go without saying that if your business strategy is hoping people get confused and accidentally use your services, nobody needs your services.
Not even on the list of things they care about. If this business idea fails they will go back to mugging in the park
Also, the whole “it may take 3 to 5 days to remove you from the list” bullshit. That’s a slow fucking database they’re updating, which is strange because they added my address to it in about 15 milliseconds.
Hell I’ve seen 30 days. Sometimes they are using a third-party - it still should be almost immediate these days.
I used to work in online promotions, things like collect and win, enter a code to win an xbox, that type of jazz…
It’s not that the local deletion can’t take place immediately… It’s that they have to legally cover their asses because there’s a whole chain of backups, mirrors, scheduled things blah blah… It literally might take that long for all of the changes to propagate through the full system.
Usually once you unsubscribe, you’re added to the unsubscribe list, and then the local deletion happens with the nightly Cron job. It really is almost done immediately but they just legally cover their rear ends from that point forward because there is a chance it does linger somewhere within the greater system
I’m not going into all the technicalities but that’s the basic reason
I used to do data reporting and list generating that sometimes involved working with advancements marketing. The email marketing system set a static list before it was actually sent. So you could have a draft ready 3 days ahead of time and each unsubscribe wouldn’t impact the static list they already set up. They eventually upgraded to a better system, but I could see situations where 3-5 business days is actually necessary, simply due to poorly planned technology.
If you unsubscribe then some outreach metric will drop and that will look bad to upper management because it’s correlated with sales.
The Liberal Party of Canada sent me FOUR fundraising emails in the same fucking day. 3 the prior day, three the day before that. It was 15 emails in a week.
They also labelled the emails “official contribution record” just to make it fucking awful to search my inbox for tax receipts.
I’ve never fucking unsubscribed from a list harder. The people running that campaign must be the dumbest fucks alive.
I get like 6-7 a day from various DNC campaigns because at one point I gave ActBlue my email, and they apparently disseminated it to fucking everyone. If I thought it would help, I’d send them a nastygram to get them to take me out of all their lists, but I’m more or less 100% sure the horse is well out of that barn already, and there’s no one central list that I can get un-subbed from anymore.
I don’t get this.
Once Gmail and co mark you as spam you’re NEVER getting through and can’t appeal.
You have to make your emails actually relevant otherwise you’re gone from 90% of people’s inbox.
That goes for the 6 follow up emails begging for reviews after I make a purchase. Congrats, now I don’t see your order placed or order delivered emails.
But some exec is looking that you’re sending emails with X frequency and now the ever dwindling CTR — which they’ll blame on Apple and privacy tools, but you can only measure by tracking the thing you wanted being done and not the click or open data.
I did a brief stint doing email analytics and people are fucking stupid.
I got hit with something like that because I responded to a survey from my representative. It’s like I responded to your survey because you’re my representative, not because I personally support you or your political party.
Special place in hell for the sites that want you to LOG IN to unsubscribe.
Looking at you, aliexpress.
And they email you every time one of the people in the delivery chain sneezes and there’s no way to stop them from doing that without disabling the notifications entirely like jfc just tell me when it gets here!
Is this not illegal under CAN-SPAM?
Are Chinese shit merchants bound to follow whatever that is?
LinkedIn is
Technically, they are if sending emails to Americans, but I’m not sure how much enforcement this law gets.
Nor have I ever intentionally subscribed to one.
Shout out to the unsubscribe buttons that do it without confirmation, but leave a re-subscribe button on the page just in you actually accidentally unsubscribe.Assume the button is there just in case and doesn’t have a sob story attached to it.
I agreed to one once for a gambling website because they promised me a bunch of free bets if I did. Then after a few unsavoury encounters with the service I went and unsubscribed.
A week later I got an email from them reminding me about all the controls and limits they have in place, which will help me more safely enjoy such AWESOME GAMES AS WALLETFUCKER 3, ASSETLIQUIDATOR and new in this week, DEBT-RAISER.
^this does not qualify as marketing materials as it is simply information about our safety features^
UK comment:
Anglian windows. Do NOT under any circumstance answer the door to their friendly salesman and do NOT give them your email.
There is no way to opt out of them. No unsubscribe button, nothing. I finally got them to take me off their mailing list, and to stop calling me by threatening to report them to Ofcom.
Will never buy a window from these guys. Too aggressive sales tactics, and they’re not even cheap.
I do not trust the unsubscribe feature, so I delete the email address they’re using. One of the benefits of using Port87.
I also use email aliases and unsubscribe ONCE. If I keep getting emails, i deactivate the alias.
I don’t even bother unsubscribing, just block the address. They get a SMTP DENY response. If their system is designed well, it’ll remove that now dead address from the list.
Your email service’s scanner might, because some of them go through every link and check what’s on the page.
I was going to say the same thing. The overbearing corporate email scanner at work will dutifully follow every link in any email I receive, which is why I assume there’s usually a confirmation page and they don’t do one-click unsubscribe links.
This same scanner will also trigger every singe tracking link in any spam email, resulting in even more spam hitting my inbox.
Gets us on the other end too as we do newsletters and other web work for small orgs, so our poor little web servers basically get DDOS’d by the scanners when we send out a newsletter with a bunch of backlinks.
If you never accidentally unsubscribed I guess that means those confirmation screens are working then!
I never subscribed to any email list. I’m automatically there.
Some even have the audacity to automatically subscribe you to the newsletter on account creation (to download/see something account-locked, like, external links).
Some will provide a checkbox and then sign you up regardless
