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Spam and malicious emails aren't the same as a newsletter from a genuine company. I'd know if I subscribed to something, I'm not even opening spam let alone click a link in it. Genuine companies will follow the law in Canada and other developed countries.
I live in Canada. Walmart.ca won't stop sending me emails no matter how many times I click unsubscribe. Never even signed up, just bought something from them once. I'm still glad there's a law about this, but companies are absolutely not following it reliably.
That sounds like someone is using your email on purchases to refresh it.
If they’re not complying, report them. That’s how the government knows there’s something to deal with.
Maybe it’s Walmart.com and not ca that’s continuing? A large corporation shouldn’t be making a mistake like that, it’s costly.
Yeah okay think about what he said and what you are saying. Canada cant enforce the law against the non genuine companies based offshore. When you click unsubscribe often you don't know if its a genuine company or not.
I know, which is why i included
Perhaps I could have written that more clearly. Despite not all spam and malicious emails being easy to spot, for me the opposite is very true: i can spot whether I subscribed to something or not. If I believe I didn't, it goes straight to spam. If it turns out i barely or ever read something I subscribed to, I rather unsubscribe then delete or move to spam each individual message every time I get one.
And weren't differentiated in the chain so far. You want to keep those goal posts in place, bud.
No, someone brought up spam incorrectly when the topic was only about subscribed first emails. Like going to bestbuy and buying something with your email.
Spam is all automatically sorted and I don’t see anyways,
You kinda have to subscribe to something to be able to unsubscribe from it dude….
How am i moving a goal post? I'm making that differentiation because it wasn't made in the initial comment:
If you assume something, context matters. Later in the chain it is pointed out one context could be spammers:
Which is why I'm pointing out that is not the only possible context and you can make a differentiation. Nowhere am I saying unsubscribe buttons always work or are always to be trusted, nowhere am I saying this only applies to newsletters from genuine companies. You can only move goalposts once it is established where those posts are in the first place, bud.