Want to unsubscribe from this email? Ok, you can do it in one click, but we have 16 categories of emails we send you, so you'll still get the other 15! It's a dark pattern for sure.

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s2l 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And by unsubscribing, you just gave us a signal that you are active.

	▲	DrewADesign 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They’re sad they can’t point that particular marketing hose at you, anymore, but appreciate confirming your validity as a lead they’ll sell to data brokers.

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pixl97 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

1.3076744e+12 -1 is a lot of categories to click.

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floxy 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

1,307,674,368,000

	▲	nativeit 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		[ ] 231,846,239,211 “Messages related to wetland fauna migratory patterns and their impact on commodity spice markets, also Pepsi advertising”

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permo-w 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

e+ is such an unintuitive decimal representation system. going in blindly, it's completely non-obvious what "e" stands for, surely "d" would make far more sense. also, the namespace for e is plenty filled up as is, and, most of all, +12 implies 12 additional digits, not digits after the point

Google's choice to use it for calculation results despite having essentially no restriction on text space always annoyed me. I think this is the first time I've seen a human using it

	▲	rmccue 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The use of E notation for scientific notation dates back to 1956: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation#:~:text=wh... It’s also pretty common on scientific and graphing calculators; the first time I saw it was in junior school in maths.

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bux93 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thanks again for unsubscribing! This is your weekly reminder that you are still unsubscribed. As usual, we've included a little bonus for you to enjoy at the end of this unsubscribe-reminder e-mail: a complementary full edition of this week's newsletter!

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jrootabega 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And if you just add them to your spam filter, it won't even work easily, because they deliberately shift around the domains and subdomains they send from every so often.

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05 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I just use a unique address for each service. Any email that gets leaked or is getting unsubscribe resistant spam is added to /etc/postfix/denied_recipients :)

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tastyfreeze 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Appending "+label" to the username part of an email address is legal and will be delivered to the username mailbox.

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Jolter 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Doesn’t sound like a very fun hobby, TBH.

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osamagirl69 9 hours ago | parent [-]

no the op, but I find great joy in looking though who sends me spam (based on the unique email used to sign up for each service)

I think it scratches a similar itch to putting up a game camera to see what sort of vermin are running around in your back yard.

	▲	nativeit 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You inevitably catch LexisNexis shitting in your herb garden and leaving squirrel carcasses lying about…

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volkk 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

this is where LLMs could actually help. create spam filters that an LLM can parse and deny if it looks close enough. but then again, hallucinations would be kind of terrible.

	▲	autoexec 18 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I agree this would be a good use of an LLM (assuming that it was running locally). I wouldn't put one in charge of deleting my messages, but I could see one being used to assign a score to messages and based on that score moving them out of my inbox into various folders for review.
	▲	csomar 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Same can be achieved with a catch all domain and a sub for every service you use. Cost $13/year. Extra protection: now if you lose access to your email provider, you still have access to future emails.