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by ProZsolt 2271 days ago
This is exactly what a robot would say.

Clicking on the confirmation is only proves that you own that email. I could easily automate all of the steps that you said except captcha.

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Ok...lets say I am a robot for hypothetical reasons.

So now a robot is on a mailing list. Why is that a bad thing? You may only want human eyeballs I suppose if you were somehow making a profit off knowing your audience was all humans a la broadcast radio advertising rates based on estimated audience size, but OP is using amazon affiliate links, not ads, so that argument is out of scope?