WT please fire your marketing people. I’ve received “specials” emails every day since the I made one purchase. Nobody needs that many floor mats. Trying to unsub, the page loads with so many trackers and other crap that it crashes because of my ad-blocker and DNS filter.
I was able to make it work in Librewolf but this is the kind of thing that drives away customers.
- If you use a public email provider, mark the emails as spam.
- Set an email filter to delete all their emails. And if you’re mad, also add a forward to some of their addresses.
- Email every single email address you can find on their website that they should remove your email address from their system. I live in the EU so I always mention GDPR, which they are required to follow if they wish to do any business with people from the EU. There’s similar laws in other countries.
- If the senders email address is not a “noreply” email address, reply with “UNSUBSCRIBE”.
- If the website uses an email service such as mailchimp, mark them as “I never signed up for this”. If a lot of people do this they might get in trouble.
- https://www.spam.org/report
These are my default solutions for spam like this.
Email every single email address you can find…
The “there’s always an inbox open somewhere” approach to dealing with messages from accounts that don’t accept replies. Make it less annoying to solve the problem than to leave it unsolved and like magic, it gets fixed.
I can’t remove my accounts from Experian, the credit score provider. I got a free account from them after they gave my social security number away on accident. Now I can’t remove my bank accounts from them, because “unknown error occurred!”
Prob one of your extensions
I’d still put that on the web devs. It’s a simple unsubscribe form, should be able to survive an ad blocker without imploding.
Oh. You’d be surprised the cluster-f#k you have to deal with as a web dev. I can’t tell you how many times I had to fix sh#t that Ad-companies screwed up with their dumb inject scripts. They are so aggressive… no wonder anyone should block them at any cost.
My favorite bug caused by ads-scripts was, that no customer could check out anymore as their stupid scripts removed any nested scrollbars
Fellow member of the “have dealt with that bullshit” club, happy to leave it behind.
It pays the bills and it’s just rarely that I have to chip in. I’m happy with my task and work
My point exactly. Take my unsubscribe and act on it, people. Nothing needs to be on the page but that.
I’ll try the unsubscribe link, if that fails I’ll directly email addresses like contact@company.example, info@, support@, service@, hr@, admin@, abuse@ requesting I be removed from their mailing lists.
If all those fail (I’m still getting spam later), I whois lookup the domain and send a complaint to the listed abuse address for the registrar. That typically goes through AWS who follows up asking for the email source headers to investigate.
It usually ends there.
“Report Issue” button doesn’t work. Neither in Chrome. Even better, if it’s to send the form you painstackingly filled already.
I can’t remember the service but I had to disconnect from my VPN to unsubscribe
OK, but you’re not saying that was your fault, right?
It’s not my fault. I have a right to privacy
You can unsub directly from inside Gmail without using this form
What is this gmail you speak of?
