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      7 hours ago

      TBH I just set up a Thunderbird filter to move anything from their domain into my bullshit folder. Takes about the same amount of time as unsubscribing and I know for sure it’ll work. 👍

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        Or what? What’s the enforcement on that, especially if the sender isn’t in Canada?

        If some anonymous spam farm in India sends you more spam after you unsubscribe, what exactly is Canada going to do about it?

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          Why would you subscribe to one of those in the first place?

          Spam and subscribeable emails are totally different things and issues.

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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.

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            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.

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            Genuine companies

            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.

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              I know, which is why i included

              I’d know if I subscribed to something, I’m not even opening spam let alone click a link in it.

              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.

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            Spam and malicious emails aren’t the same as a newsletter

            And weren’t differentiated in the chain so far. You want to keep those goal posts in place, bud.

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              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….

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              How am i moving a goal post? I’m making that differentiation because it wasn’t made in the initial comment:

              Assuming unsubscribe works and isn’t just confirming your email is valid.

              If you assume something, context matters. Later in the chain it is pointed out one context could be spammers:

              If some anonymous spam farm in India sends you more spam after you unsubscribe, what exactly is Canada going to do about it?

              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.

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          Anything you could want to know is here.

          Governments can block tcp and ISPs if they refuse to comply. They can also use it against trade relations or other negotiations as well too.

          If you’re trying to make a joke instead of genuinely asking a question, well…. Okay.

          The USA literally uses copyright, DRM and other stuff as bargaining chips with other countries, why would you not think the same could happen elsewhere?

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            Hahahahaha. I manage a mail server and they are never going to be able to block all the compromised accounts these scumbags use. I geo blocked the whole world and all domains except for the main top level ones and I still get regular fake phishing attempts using all manner of otherwise legitimate servers and domains. It doesn’t matter what any law says. These people don’t care and they are not going to be stopped often. I get a huge number these days from aws and google. As much as I would love to I can’t block them.

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            It’s one thing for a billion dollar company to get the government to take someone down, and another thing entirely for an individual to get the government to take down a company.