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0 pointsmook2y ago0 comments

My bank sends (non-transactional) email to me with an unsubscribe link, then magically I get sent more even after going through the whole thing (to the screen where they confirm everything has been unsubscribed).

It's hard to confirm externally that things worked.

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actualwitch2y ago

Google probably tracks all clicks on links in mail. It is easy to see that unsubscribe was clicked, and then more mail that you mark as spam came.

mookOP2y ago

That's the thing — it's my bank and it does have transactional mail too. I don't expect Google to be able to tell between those.

It's nudging me towards switching banks.

actualwitch2y ago

I don't use google mail much, but fastmail seems to be capable of making fine-grained judgements on transactional/promotional mail coming from the same address. I reckon google will be able to do it too, certainly easier than changing banks.

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0 pointsmook2y ago0 comments

It's hard to confirm externally that things worked.

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actualwitch2y ago

Google probably tracks all clicks on links in mail. It is easy to see that unsubscribe was clicked, and then more mail that you mark as spam came.

mookOP2y ago

That's the thing — it's my bank and it does have transactional mail too. I don't expect Google to be able to tell between those.

It's nudging me towards switching banks.

actualwitch2y ago

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