2. I also see it as a modern tower of Babylon. A linguistic equalizer of sorts.
You’re right though, upon re-read there are some places in this article where my authentic voice doesn’t come through. Re-writing.
Once, their CSR “escalated” my issue, but I never heard back. If you work in Walmart engineering, please fix the review unsubscribe.
One man's bug is another man's feature.
I have a friend exactly like that. And he has being doing it so long that he cannot even respond to a discord without asking AI "what do you think? what should I say? what do you think they mean?"
Full NPC mode, and it's really sad and scary.
You lose the ability to think. You lose all differentiation.
I don’t see what’s sad or scary about this. AI agents are the next iPhone.
But that's okay, Fastmail now automatically routes it to the spam folder where it belongs.
additionally:
Interesting, I set my email as a backup authentication for a luddite friend's Comcast email account, and I just discovered spam from Xfinity in my spam folder. Shame on you Xfinity Comcast.
The problem:
My understanding is the CAN-SPAM Act violations can only be prosecuted by states Attorney Generals, there is no civil action available.
I mean, OneTrust's entire raison d'etre is to violate consent regulations with flimsy deniability.
The only solution I've found to work, beyond the usual spam filtering, is to setup email on your own domain, and give every company a unique address. The moment you want to stop receiving email from them, you simply block their address. This deals both with the original company, and with anyone they've sold your contact information to.
I also use email aliases for every single account I have so if my email somehow leaks and I’m getting spam, i know exactly what account leaked it. That’s basically never happened though.
The only problem I have with unsubscribe links is that sometimes the website is straight up broken, like the link is dead or the page unresponsive, and I wonder about how far down fixing that issue is on the engineering team’s todo.
I create a unique iCloud Hide My Email anytime I need to give out an email. The issue here was I signed up for my 24 Hour Fitness membership in person at the gym where the cell service was bad and I couldn't get the WiFI to work, so I begrudgingly gave the guy my real email.
While I could have easily blocked their domain, I took it as a challenge to get the emails to stop.
In the 33 days since I wrote this article, no_reply@24hourfitness.com sent me zero.
That’s quite a stretch for a company sending marketing email with a broken unsub mechanism.
