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I’ve had to do it a few times where legit businesses like the magazine “New England Today” send reams of adverts to my email. I unsubsidized to all but the main publication, and didn’t see any uptick in spam- but with other sites which might not be so trustworthy, I’m thinking that one might unsubscribe and then receive a ton of new spam emails as a result.
A better way to manage those might be to create an email rule that automatically deletes the address of that site
I never unsubscribe from junk email. Never. As you noted, it might give an opening for malware.
But it’s more than just that. When you unsubscribe, you’re telling the junk email’s sender that your email address is a live one. So there’s a good chance you’ll be placed on even more junk lists.
So I mark the junk email I get as spam instead.
I only do the unsubscribe if it’s somebody i’ve dealt with before, otherwise just delete. Unsubscribe sometimes takes a few weeks, if I keep getting stuff and it seems unsubscribe has not had an affect I will block the domain. FWIW I use Protonmail
"Mark as spam (or junk)" from organizations you do not recognize.
Simply mark as spam and discard
The only places I unsubscribe to are businesses I have bought something from and then they spam me with emails. Then I unsubscribe.
If I don’t recognize the sender I mark it as spam and delete it.
In my opinion...
If you are getting email from the same accounts or addresses you didn’t subscribe to, you should be able to block the senders’ messages (rerouting them to your ‘suspect email’ or ‘spam’ folders) by blocking the senders’ addresses through the incoming mail settings in your email account.
If you are invited to unsubscribe in the body of the email, you can follow their prompt IF YOU KNOW AND TRUST the sender but no longer wish their emails. Otherwise, block them or delete their mail unopened. Often, spammers insert ‘Unsubscribe’ prompts as verification of a working email address and keep sending stuff anyway.
There are ways to block or rerout email without interacting with the sender. Those are the ways I know. I hope that helps!
Instead, I set up a "junk mail" folder and then put filters on incoming mail so that any future emails from those senders will just funnel into my junk mail folder - which I never check. I currently have 106,228 emails sitting there, almost all of them never opened!
Trump is probably the worst offender. I gave money to one of his PACs years ago and the relentless barrage of "Trump needs your support" emails I've gotten since is staggering.
Still voting for Trump though!
“Unsubscribe” is a two-edged sword. While it will stop spam from that particularly, annoying, email addy, the bot will still mark your email addy as being a valid email addy to be used or sold for future spammers.
I rarely ‘unsubscribe.’ I have my email program mark the sender’s email address as spam. After a while and when I think about it I simply delete the contents of the spam folder.
I was getting a bunch of emails purportedly from someone I know whose email account had been stolen or hacked. The emails were going straight to the spam folder. I was checking the spam folder and purging it regularly without opening the suspect emails. The faster I purged them, the faster they came. I finally just left them in there and let them be deleted automatically by gmail after 30 days. The emails stopped. Evidently, they were able to tell that there was someone on the other end deleting them unopened.
I had subscribed to a websites newsletter about investing. After receiving a few emails, I decided to unsubscribe. I didn’t receive anymore emails from this website - worked like it was supposed to. However over the next few weeks I would receive other emails on the same investing subject from probably 6 other different sources.
What I gathered is that the original website I subscribed then unsubscribed to sells off or shared my email address in some type of open forum where others then picked up on it. They all could be related to the original website as far as I know.
Usually not worth it unless you read the ‘How we use your data’ section in the user agreement so you know what to expect.
Rather than unsubscribing, which affirms that you received the junk mail, just block the address. Don’t communicate with anyone that you don’t want to communicate with.
No. Never, ever do that.
I get 10-12 emails a day from unrecognized “spam” senders. I just delete them. Granted, I have several email addresses that I use for specific website access... mylowes@emailprovider.com, hdepot@emailprovider.com, craigslist99@emailprovider.com, contactme@emailprovider.com ...so I’m probably my own worst enemy because those are the ones I get the spam garbage from. But, I never respond to an email unless it’s from the real website...Lowe’s, Home Depot, Craigslist, etc. I’m in the process of narrowing that down to just one or two emails. So far, it’s been very easy to identify to “spam” emails, and then delete them. Are they phishing emails? Probably.
I have a couple gmail email addresses that I get zero spam from.
Just delete the unrecognized ones.
“Block” works better.
Send them to spam and your email service will soon automatically send them there. Just empty the spam folder regularly.
Do not hit unsubscribe. This shows the emailer that you are there. Just send it to spam. Same same as the supposed “no call” list. Foreign telemarketers use the Federal No Call list to get your phone number. There’s nothing the fed can do about calls from India, etc.
It is especially annoying with texts, where you can clearly see the new URLs they provide, every new time you send a “Stop.”
I have given a reasonable amount of money, but WinRed using candidates are the ones who keep having emails and phone numbers passed around—and WinRed’s Privacy Agreement says they will distribute your information, as they see fit. Even contacting their Legal department to follow up on the removal request, as stated on the removal instructions, gets no email from their Legal team to stop the apparent giving/sale of your information.
Candidates using Anedot seem to not abuse your information, in my experience.
I just don't give via WinRed anymore. It is a scam site, with its behavior and lack of respect.
Doubt any candidate using WinRed. Send a check, instead.
From WinRed’s Privacy Statement (Apparently for “Contact Information,” “Political Information,” “Voter Registration Information,” “Contribution Information,” “Demographic information,” “Information That You Post or Submit,” and “Social Media Information.”)
How We May Disclose It: Internally; on our Platform; with page creators, political committees and campaigns; with our business partners; with our service providers; with third parties for marketing purposes;…
We may share this information for cross-contextual marketing purposes with, or sell this information to, our business partners. For more information about your right to opt out, please click here.
When you click “here,” you then get the runaround page that says it's valid for only for a couple states…
Only unsubscribe to emails from vendors or organizations you signed up for. Anything else will just confirm you read and obey junk emails and you’ll get more. Just delete them. Most I get are when a site will give me 10% off for giving my email. Use the coupon, wait for the first email, then unsubscribe.