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by nottorp 930 days ago
The unsubscribe link is legit, but how did I end up on the list? I've never ever signed up for something with the goal of receiving marketing emails. I've never given explicit permission to receive marketing emails.

So if you send me a marketing email, it's spam because I didn't ask for it. It may be legal but that doesn't impress me.
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ale42 929 days ago
If you ended up on the list without signing up, well I wouldn't blame you to click the "Report spam" button, because that's what it is.

But I'm pretty sure that some people who actually signed up on purpose to be on some mailing list just click the spam button not to see them any more, because they are not any more interested, or for whatever other reason.

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nottorp 929 days ago
That's probably 1% of 1%. The rest is opt out instead of opt in and dark patterns.
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