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I wonder what would happen if someone used one of the public email dumps and automated a mass opt-out of every email ever spotted in the wild.


23andMe's ToS change right now seems in poor taste at best, and I think they need to get smacked for that, by a judge and/or the public.

But I don't see how drunken anarchist tactics help, and that noise seems like it would be a counterproductive diversion.


wow, that's probably one of the most brilliant altruistic ideas I've read since buying other people's medical debt.

this is probably why the unsubscribe links require some interactive confirmation so that simply loading the page doesn't actually unsubscribe.

if this was doable, i'd put them above Troy Hunt in contributions to humankind ;-)


Some email providers navigate to every URL you receive to check them for phishing and malware. That doesn't play well with one-click unsubscribe links.


sounds like the email providers are in the wrong here. quit reading my mail.


My unsubscribe likes require a POST request, and have a form on the landing page, but specify the post requirements in the email header.




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