[justinclift]

When someone sends spam perhaps don't click on any "Unsubscribe" type link...?

Those links are often spammer controlled and just confirm your email address as valid.

[Hnrobert42]

Nah. Hit unsubscribe every time.

I own my own email domain, and I use a different email address per service. I have done so for 13 years.

On legitimate emails, unsubscribe works correctly almost every time.

True spam seems to originate from a handful of compromised services like LinkedIn, parkmobile, etc. I don’t hit unsubscribe on those, but I don’t see how it would make things any worse.

[justinclift]

Would you happen to be running a windows desktop when checking your email?

[Hnrobert42]

No.

[worksonmine]

If your e-mail client loads external images it was already confirmed on open without clicking any link.

[crote]

Are people still using that for tracking? I thought it was made pretty pointless by the large cloud providers simply prefetching and proxying it through their servers, and independent mail clients only loading them on-demand.

[justinclift]

Ewww, why would anyone have their client configured to do that? That would be truly idiotic.

Personally, my email is text only. It drops all HTML. I prefer it this way. :)

[8organicbits]

Most clients are configured this way by default. I change it every time I switch.

[freedomben]

Nearly everyone has their client configured to do that, because it is the default setting. Gmail makes that very easy to change, but many other clients have it buried in the menu

[account42]

None of the E-mail clients I use load external images by default and I haven't had to configure that behavior myself.