| I thought it was going to tell me the cost of clicking unsubscribe, followed by the forgot my password dance to log in to my "subscription preferences" to turn off the emails being sent to me. Or having to fill out the email address that received the email (change back to my email client, check the headers), something that they could fill in for me. Or having to figure out that the unsubscribe link is two shades of grey darker than the rest of the email and is almost unnoticeable... Or even worse, the unsubscribe link is only in the HTML portion of the email, but not in the text portion of the email. Other times the unsubscribe button is an image ... and if you don't download images willy-nilly from random servers when you get email you can't see it, and thus have no idea there is a way to unsubscribe. I could go on, email is starting to get more and more frustrating and I have gotten to a point that I simply don't care anymore. I will press the junk button in Google Mail or in my mail client, and in the future I will not receive messages from that company. Does stuff get caught because of that, which shouldn't get caught? Sure, stuff like password reset emails, or billing renewal reminders, but overall I am sick and tired of every little thing I do online causing me to receive an email. |
I've started to filter off any email that has the word 'unsubscribe' in the body to my spam folder.