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by nickhalfasleep 1400 days ago
Donate to a political candidate or large non-profit. Those are where I see the most sharing of addresses. I have been doing the same sort of custom emails.
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Yup, one donation and I get a never ending stream of different political campaigns messaging me. Unsubscribe from one and a different one emails me the next day.

Marking them all as spam seems to be helping more than unsubscribing.

Seriously. Donate to planned parenthood once and you basically ensure that the company spends more over the next 10 years bothering you than your donation was worth.

And I like PP but goddamn, emails coming from a swath of domains, a neverending stream of physical mail.

I won't donate to them again because the amount of contact they try to have with me is absurd.

Huh, I donated about a year back and, while I think I did get some messages, I unsubscribed and haven't seen any since. How long ago was your donation?
Donate to a political candidate or large non-profit

Can confirm.

Joined an art museum in a major city.

Within a month, the unique e-mail address was getting spam from the aquarium, the science museum, the local PBS television station, and some museums I never even knew existed.

I should have specified that it was only retail, not social media or politics.