1 hour ago · Tech · 0 comments

Hello fellow haters of marketing emails that you get signed up for on the way to creating accounts, sometimes as an explicit checkbox (this is not about you companies, you are gorgeous and I love you) but mostly as an implicit acceptance that yes, I have created an account and of course I also want to be sent all your marketing material. Today I had the joy of needing to unsubscribe from the emails of Samsung and was pleasantly taken aback by how human conscious they were. Ensuring multiple times that I am a human taking this action, and verifying that indeed I am the owner of the mailbox I want unsubscribed, in this age of agents and automation? I have never been treated as such a human for so mundane an action. I am used to getting an odd marketing email, scrolling all the way down to hit the unsubscribe link, being taken to a confirmation page and it is done. No, not this email link to unsubscribe. This leads me to the confirmation page and I am in a dilemma. Oh man, do I really…

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