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0 pointsJimDabell1y ago0 comments

You can do that, but if they don’t interact with your email either, you may be better off not doing so. You get worse delivery rates if you constantly send email that gets ignored.

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freehorse1y ago

They send by default an email every month when the payment time is approaching, so I assume they may just send the same email and state that the payment amount is covered by the previous month. They have really good practices at that.

fl0id1y ago

tbh, these e-mails can also prompt unsubscribing. because then I actually remember that I am still subscribed to that thing.

ldoughty1y ago

Yet Kagi is one of the very very few services I've seen that sends a monthly reminder that they are ABOUT to charge you... And you have time to stop it. Typically I only ever see something like that with shipped goods where they might have to deal with a return + cancellation

FireBeyond1y ago

My favorite is that I've now had multiple services that don't warn you prior to renewing an annual subscription.

scarface_741y ago

Ben Thompson’s Stratechery subscription reminds you when there are about to charge you.

7thaccount1y ago

That's really nice sounding and comforting. I've been a little on the fence, but Google has become such absolute garbage lately that I've had to frequently use Bing in order to find something that should be one of the first results. This may just be a better model.

thesuitonym1y ago

Kagi is so much better. You should just try one of the lower tier subscriptions for a while and see what it's like.

Just for warning, you'll still want to use Google as a backup for hyper local results, but generally the experience with Kagi is much better.

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ghaff1y ago

People also forget that they're subscribed to something (or that they signed up for emails either explicitly or implicitly), so they just report to Google (or whoever) as spam. I'm sure that's why I get a lot of email (mostly in my Gmail Promotions or Updates tabs that are from companies that scanned me at some event or whatever or I ordered something from.

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