Do they have an easy-to-unsubscribe link in the marketing spam (cannot include logging into the user's account)?

I have a generic name gmail account and people with my name frequently accidentally use my email address when signing up for stuff.

When I get unsolicited mail which doesn't include a simple unsubscribe link then I just report as spam instead.

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0x3f 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Each email has an unsubscribe link, but my problem is that I don't know if these separate senders represent different email lists. In the past, some companies who've used this pattern have accepted my unsubscribe request on one list, but kept emailing me from another, as if I'm supposed to work out their marketing email list hierarchy in order to stop them spamming me. So these days I don't bother, I just select all and mark as spam when I see it.

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itopaloglu83 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think most of them are spamming you and you’re being nice to attribute to mistakes.

Also, a lot of companies nowadays keep adding weird email topics that you need to constantly unsubscribe from.

If I signed up and turned off all subscriptions, then anything they send is marked as spam immediately. The lack of cost in sending email makes it easy for them to keep abusing all the time.

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ryandrake 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I basically give companies 0 strikes anymore, and assume the "unsubscribe" link is at best, a dark pattern that only unsubscribes me from that 1 out of their 100 "channels," and at worst, confirms my E-mail address. "Report Spam" immediately.

	▲	RHSeeger 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I unsubscribe twice (allowing for one possible bug), then spam. And, as others have noted, unsubscribe cannot involving going and logging into their system. If I need to do that, it generally goes directly to spam.

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fnord77 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Do they have an easy-to-unsubscribe link in the marketing spam

I've noticed a recent trend where unsubscribing actually does nothing

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SoftTalker 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I've long noticed an old trend where subscribing somehow works instantly, but unsubscribing takes "60-90 days to process."

	▲	FireBeyond 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, the spin on that used to be "that's because we plan our campaigns in advance and use partners to handle them and we have to submit a final list and..." (insert several different types of horseshit here that might survive a passing glance but little more than that).