Pleass to confirm you want to unsubscribe give us an email address we might or might not flood with spam or sell to some chinese data harvesting company

I assume you copy pasted this from cards against humanity, cause that sounds like something they would do ironically

It should go without saying that if your business strategy is hoping people get confused and accidentally use your services, nobody needs your services.

Not to mention some of the confirmation pages are intentionally setup to confuse people into resubscribing. The text will be like "we're so sorry to see you go. If this was a mistake, press the big blue 'CLICK HERE' button to resubscribe, otherwise click the small print 'close' button that looks like plain text to continue." And again, some % of people are just not gonna pay that much attention and click the button that jumps out at them rather than reading the full text of the page.

This doesn’t have anything to do with email, but along the same lines…

Why can stores take money out of my bank account immediately when I pay, but when getting a refund, it takes 3-5 business days?!

I used to work in online promotions, things like collect and win, enter a code to win an xbox, that type of jazz...

It's not that the local deletion can't take place immediately... It's that they have to legally cover their asses because there's a whole chain of backups, mirrors, scheduled things blah blah... It literally might take that long for all of the changes to propagate through the full system.

Usually once you unsubscribe, you're added to the unsubscribe list, and then the local deletion happens with the nightly Cron job. It really is almost done immediately but they just legally cover their rear ends from that point forward because there is a chance it does linger somewhere within the greater system

I'm not going into all the technicalities but that's the basic reason

Hell I've seen 30 days. Sometimes they are using a third-party - it still should be almost immediate these days.

I used to do data reporting and list generating that sometimes involved working with advancements marketing. The email marketing system set a static list before it was actually sent. So you could have a draft ready 3 days ahead of time and each unsubscribe wouldn't impact the static list they already set up. They eventually upgraded to a better system, but I could see situations where 3-5 business days is actually necessary, simply due to poorly planned technology.

I can make upper management look bad by unsubscribing to every email that strays into my inbox?? Count me in!

I get like 6-7 a day from various DNC campaigns because at one point I gave ActBlue my email, and they apparently disseminated it to fucking everyone. If I thought it would help, I’d send them a nastygram to get them to take me out of all their lists, but I’m more or less 100% sure the horse is well out of that barn already, and there’s no one central list that I can get un-subbed from anymore.

I think they're all like that, provincial too. Aggressive af. I made an email alias dedicated to political fundraisers and had them auto sort into a folder that auto deletes emails after anything reaches 1 month old because I knew NDP would spam me to death doing anything for them lol. Even if you ubsub from main, you'll still be on every individual member's separate email list and more.

And they email you every time one of the people in the delivery chain sneezes and there's no way to stop them from doing that without disabling the notifications entirely like jfc just tell me when it gets here!

Is this not illegal under CAN-SPAM?

I’m a fair man, I’ll give them one chance to unsubscribe me. If I get another email? “Off to Spam with you!”

They’re so goddamn needy about that shit, and why even?

because the more difficult they make it, the more likely you wont go through with it, so their numbers stay up and looking good, and they may eventually put something infront of you that'd you'd accidentally click.

I was going to say the same thing. The overbearing corporate email scanner at work will dutifully follow every link in any email I receive, which is why I assume there's usually a confirmation page and they don't do one-click unsubscribe links.

This same scanner will also trigger every singe tracking link in any spam email, resulting in even more spam hitting my inbox.

I also use email aliases and unsubscribe ONCE. If I keep getting emails, i deactivate the alias.

Some will provide a checkbox and then sign you up regardless