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points by pluralmonad 3 days ago | 0 comments

I tell my friends and family to never use "unsubscribe" links unless they have a close relationship with the sender. How folks decided directing people to click links in spam email is beyond me.

[–] solyin 3 days ago

What jurisdiction are you in? Legit companies respect unsubscribe links eg Eventbrite because there's actual fines associated with not respecting unsubscribes. Also, buy a domain name and use per-vendor emails with a salt. Eventbrite@solyin.com is guessable by spammers, eventbrite_1243@solyin.com is not. So then you have easy signal for what's definitely spam.

[–] Sayrus 3 days ago

GMail and many other web clients do the unsubscribe request for you if List-Unsubscribe is present. That doesn't leak your information but still shows that you care and is signal for spam.

[–] Ensorceled 3 days ago

Gmail will helpfully suggest unsubscribing from obvious spam that contains an unsubscribe link ...

[–] kotaKat 3 days ago

Except then it doesn't shitcan it to the spam folder. It archives it in All Mail.

There's no "Unsubscribe and report as spam", just "unsubscribe" and "report spam".

[–] ASalazarMX 2 days ago

You only unsubscribe from legit senders, never click on a true spam unsubscribe link.

If it's a regular email that you vindicatively want to classify as spam, do that and don't unsubscribe. It will go directly to your spam folder in the future, and it will hurt a tiny bit their standing with Google.