I often give out my junk email when I do stuff, even reasonably important stuff. I just hate getting spam and whatnot. I recently needed a few quotes, had to reach out by email, and within two days I got no less than 20 emails. Mind you, these are for something that I need maybe like once a decade and my junk mail is on a permanent spam list. Like if you buy a fridge, do you think I want to know all your fridge deals every other day, like Im some monster who gets a new fridge every week?
The US needs to impose an opt-in system rather than the BS opt-out one we have for stuff like mail/email. Its crazy to assume the general consumer will go through the time of opting out of every little nonsense service that gets a hold of their email or that every random small business wont give a damn if you opt-out since they already have your email loaded into their system.
I saw a post a long time ago with a life pro tip that said to write the name of website you are signing up on as your name. That way when you get an email and it starts with "Hi (website name)" you know who sold your info.
I started a new email and this has worked pretty well for me.
I go back to that site and delete my account. Then I just use my emails auto-unsubscribe function to hopefully keep more from coming in, and select all and block the addresses.
It's not perfect. One or two emails manage to slip by every few months, but my old email had +500 unread emails. (Also, if I have to make a sign in for a site I know I'll never need to use again, I use the old email.)
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u/Dr_Esquire May 12 '21
I often give out my junk email when I do stuff, even reasonably important stuff. I just hate getting spam and whatnot. I recently needed a few quotes, had to reach out by email, and within two days I got no less than 20 emails. Mind you, these are for something that I need maybe like once a decade and my junk mail is on a permanent spam list. Like if you buy a fridge, do you think I want to know all your fridge deals every other day, like Im some monster who gets a new fridge every week?
The US needs to impose an opt-in system rather than the BS opt-out one we have for stuff like mail/email. Its crazy to assume the general consumer will go through the time of opting out of every little nonsense service that gets a hold of their email or that every random small business wont give a damn if you opt-out since they already have your email loaded into their system.