I thought chrome was already doing this for some google domains and using their own DNS vs. the operating DNS? Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought this was a thing.
Thanks for that note. I receive „spam“ by a US based Car Rentel/Leasing Company, cause they prevent me from unsubscribing because i am in European IP-Range (geo-blocking). Especially „nice“ cause they send me contract specific details of one of their customers, who misspelled his email address.
I'm in a similar boat. A UK bank thinks I'm one of their customers (someone with a similar name). The reply address is no-reply@ and I'm not about to call a foreign bank.
I had the same happen with a AU insurance company that also made it hard to reach them.
I sent an email to their regulator that this company keeps sending me confidential information about one of their clients. It took one day until I received an email from the company informing me that they've corrected the mistake and I shall no longer receive any emails, and it worked, I haven't received a single one since.
If I made a mistake while entering data, I'd be happy if someone told me they receive emails from me that they probably shouldn't be getting, so I do the same when it's not obvious spam/scam.
same. although, if it's a reservation you're being sent, you can cancel it to let the person know they're using the wrong email (plausible deniability because you don't recognize it, yet are getting a reservation)
Getting a U.K. bank account without having a U.K. mailing address isn't the
easiest thing in the world to do. Maybe someone would be interested
in acquiring it from you.
Is this Hertz? Somehow Hertz in Mexico decided to add my email address to their mailing list, and I tried to complain to every level of Hertz to get them to stop. Their hosters didn't care, their upstream didn't care.
I decided to download larger files from their web site a few tens of millions of times, which I think cost them a few hundred dollars. Unethical? Perhaps, but I'm not the kind of person who just accepts that companies are too large to have humans that can communicate and that I should just accept their harassment.
It worked, though. I finally got a response from Hertz saying they were going to "get to the bottom of it", and I finally stopped getting their spam.
When you say "it worked" referring to you downloading big files to generate cost for Hertz, it mean you told them you were doing this and would stop if they remove you from the mailing list?
I received spam for quite a while from Robinhood, back when they suggested they were going to enter the UK market and to sign up for more details.
They didn't but I still recieved spam which I couldn't opt out of because they wanted me to log into my account, even for support, which obviously didn't exist.
At least back then we had Twitter and messaging them publicly got a customer service response.
I know that feeling all too well. There's an Australian guy with a very similar email address that keeps entering it incorrectly, and I end up with the promo emails for these accounts. And because some of them are geolocked to Australian IPs, it's impossible to unsubscribe via the links in the footer.
kinda true, but I'm surprised how some apps expect you to watch movies upright (TV+, Disney), which makes watching movies laying down quite "non ergonomic". ;)
The Meta Quest 2/3 finally fixed that a few months ago [1], where you "tilt" the horizon of the entire OS [2]. So it doesn't matter if an app doesn't support it -- you can lie on your bed and watch a screen directly above you even if it was only designed for horizontal use. It's a game-changer if you have back/neck problems.
Does the AVP not have something equivalent? To be honest, I was surprised it took Meta so long to get around to implementing it.
AVP doesn't support it when in 'theater mode' but if your video is a typical window you can simply lie down and recenter it onto the ceiling. The horizon stays locked but any windows can be parallel to the ground.
