• Polar@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Once a company wouldn’t stop emailing me despite unsubscribing. I sent them multiple emails with no response.

    Then I heard that if enough people mark a sender as spam, Google starts automatically considering them spam for everyone. I emailed them to let them know this, and told them if they didn’t remove me, I would mark them as spam which would affect them majorly.

    They replied to my email within minutes and told me I was unsubscribed and would never receive another email from them lmao

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      1 year ago

      Why would you issue a warning to a spammer instead of using the tools as intended, and just marking it as spam anyway? It clearly was. All you did here was pass the buck to someone else now.

      • Polar@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        I did both, but I wanted my email removed from their system. I hate my spam box being filled up if I can help it.

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          1 year ago

          Understandable. I really doubt emails actually get removed from systems they get sold at that point and kept in the database that’s not actively used.

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    1 year ago

    I hate stuff like this, that thinks it’s being “cute”, or “cool”, or “clever”, or whatever as if the company and I have some sort of personal relationship and could just interact on this level. No, Ridiculous Company, you and I do not have any kind of relationship - and now we never will even try again for one, any time in the future. In fact, from now on every time I see your logo, I will remember your “cleverness” and imagine a room full of imposter marketers and imposter developers sitting in a plastic building full of foosball tables and needlessly-big vertical monitors being “clever” for each other while their stock goes further and further down the toilet.

    Or is that just me?