I unsubscribed from a company’s mailing list and then they added me to a new “unsubscribers” list and spammed me again. I then unsubscribed from that list and was added to another “unsubscriber” list. At least this new unsubscriber list was labelled “new”. That makes it so much better. /s*

    • deepdivedylan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      12·
      3 days ago

      You’d guess right. Ironically, we have great consumer protection laws here and it’s illegal here, too. But I doubt the authorities would do much without a flood of complaints.

      And sadly, my Twitter/𝕏 thread with the company in private message is going nowhere. 😿

  • lohky@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    I’ve worked in automated marketing for close to a decade now. Use your inbox’s report as spam function. It’ll damage their sender rep resulting in more of their emails automatically going to spam and will usually add you to their application’s system level unsubscribe list automatically. I usually do this if a company’s preference center requires me to log in to global unsubscribe.

  • RunawayFixer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    Is this from Spain?

    It sounds like what they are doing is clearly illegal and you probably could do a lot of people a favor by complaining to the authorities.

    Generally for the eu: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2017-003934-ASW_EN.html “If users receive unsolicited communications after having withdrawn consent, they can file a complaint with the national regulatory authority. In addition, they have the right to a judicial remedy before national courts.”

    The responsible agency for Spain: https://www.aepd.es/

    • deepdivedylan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      It’s not from Spain, no. You have the language correct, but but the continent. It’s too bad, because the EU laws are better than ours. 😿🇪🇸🇪🇺

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    There are so many assholes like this that unless they’re using MailChimp or similar (cloud platforms where this can’t be done automatically) I don’t even bother with unsubscribing. I just set the mail server to bounce any email from that domain.

    • deepdivedylan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I wish it were that simple. I use their actual product all the time and genuinely enjoy it. It’s literally the best in the country. So I need the emails from their domain for my actual purchases. I just want to be deleted from their bloody advertisments!

  • Rob Bos@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    I’ve found that changing my email address works better than unsubscribe sometimes. Just change it to a tagged address and set up a filter. Shields you against future sales as well.

    All the Trump emails go rbos+fucktrump now. Probably a hundred a day. Unsubscribe did not work.

    Also, Canadian. Incompetent jerks.