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The best thing to do it use your own domain, then sign up for things with a unique email address. that way, if someone sells your email address info, you know exactly who it was.

is as scam. if you're already receiving unsolicited shit, what's the thought process behind being courteous with them motherfuckers? go nuclear on them, that whole industry lost its benefit of doubt privileges a decade ago.

When you can identify the sender entity (a webshop you've used or a company you've communicated with in some way and possibly have signed up to newsletters from), unsubscribe is normally safe to use. When it's something you are certain that you didn't sign up for, then unsubscribe is useless at best and at worst will alert the sender that the address is live.

I feel like this is a “No shit, Sherlock” kind of article, it seems like common sense, at least to anyone who is cynical. One of my last head of developments would religiously unsubscribe from every spam email… and he wondered why he got so much more spam than the rest of us. Just block that shit and move on.

I unsubscribe once and if I still get emails after they get marked as spam and blocked