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In the U.S., the CAN-SPAM act requires companies to honor your opt out/unsubscribe request within 10 days. For particularly agressive mailing lists that don’t honor unsubscribes I will happily report them as spam to my email provider, report them to the FTC, and send a cease and desist letter I generated with chatGPT to their legal@example.com mailbox.
In the EU, GDPR has made spam levels drop, and when the occasional one gets through the unsubscribe link works instantly because they don’t want you to get to the point of asking “wait where did you get my address”.
Yeah people bashing Europe but we actually have a lot of good things.
Now get your pitchfork and get down in the street as usual!
Never understood the reasoning. What’s their motivation to slow walk it? Are they trying to get in 2-3 more spam emails before you are unreachable?
I swear it doesn’t even work sometimes!
It definitely does not always go through. I usually end up unsubscribing by any means available and blocking emails on top of that
Assuming they do it correctly, you get added to that brands unsubscribe list. They then need to share that list with all their email partners. The email partners download yoaded lists once per week, so it can take that long to stop receiving emails.
If it’s a site that does all their own email you shouldn’t get any emails after unsubscribing.
There could also be two unsubscribe links - to be for the brand and one for the company emailing you.
Signed up to email list despite clicking you didnt want to receive promotional emails
- Unsubscribe from this email list
- Need to fill out questionnaire as to why you want to unsubscribe from email list that you never asked to be subscribed to
- dont select an option and just press next
- Error: you must select a reason for unsubscribing
- Click random option and press next
- Are you sure you want to unsubscribe?
- Click “yes”
- Website lags, “error, we are unable to unsubscribe you at this time. Please try again later”
You hadn’t selected a reason, so they knew it was a mistake. They are looking out for you mate, you should thank them
