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To me it's sending me e-mails I have not explicitly signed up for. I have had once or twice, when I had filled out a form to order something and without pressing submit, they had already registered my e-mail address and signed me up for all kinds of spam, starting with 'weren't you about to order something'.
Especially when they sign me up for a bunch of different emails lists I need to unsubscribe from each one individually and eventually just spam everything from them. Then they sell my email.
Use a different email alias for each site. Duckduckgo with their duck.com, or Appleβs Hide My Email makes that easy; let your password manager keep track of the alias. If they start to spam me, I know not to use that site again, and I can delete the alias so that the spam goes into a black hole.
I use my pets names. They frequently get special invitations for credit cards.
Aheeem excuse me buddy, where the hell do you think you're going? You left some ITEMS in your CART. You get back here right now and complete your purchase. Don't make me tell you twice!
But sometimes there's a good coupon in that email. The weed companies are good at that!
That's very illegal in the UK and EU, oh my.
Yep this was Canal Digital in the Netherlands. I sent them an e-mail that they should really stop doing this or I would mention it to the AP (Dutch privacy guard dog).
I mentioned it to the AP regardless.
GDPR. Honestly, one of the greatest laws ever passed by anyone, anywhere. No hyperbole, it's so simple and pro-dignity. It also offers a simple litmus test: if you oppose GDPR, I oppose you.
Iβve started signing them all up for each otherβs mailing lists.
You sound like someone who would enjoy that adblocker that clicks on every ad in the background.
Edit: called adnauseam.io
I had to order something from aliexpress, because I couldn't find it anywhere else (except even worse chinese websites). I got mails for months, literally. I would block that adress and they'd just send me mail from a different random generated adress. They're the worst. I don't even want to know what they're doing with my data.
The ones that say re: your order