I don’t know why today of all days, but I’m finally going through my main email and unsubscribing from all the mailing lists I don’t care about that overwhelm me.

Go fuck yourself, Sobeys.

@maddy i need to do this at some point too

Fucking hell, Humble often sends multiple promotional emails in a single day.

I just want my cheap batch of monthly games, aaaaaa

“Changes may take up to 24 hours to take effect”
“48 hours”
“10 days”

The fuck do you mean? Is your compute capability so shit that your tech stack would suffer to remove me from your database immediately?

Pathetic. I’m gonna start reporting as spam if I see their shit pop up after having unsubscribed.

@maddy Why does Sobeys send you emails 😭

@usernameswift Scene points and Scotiabank, probably

@maddy mmmmmmm yes of course
I will take this opportunity to complain about Metro; "Moi Rewards" is the whitest name they could've possibly come up with and I hate it

This mailbox started the day with ~86,000 unread messages.

Currently down to ~74,000

@maddy this gave me anxiety just reading it😅

@maddy wait you have 86,000 emails to go through?

@fiend4coffee Well, I’m dealing with them in bulk. Usually deleting all from the sender’s address. I get a lot of junk from a lot of different sources. This email is NEARLY old enough to drink.

Shout-out to orgs that use a different domain or sender for promotional communications than the one they use for transactional communications (order status, feedback, etc)

@maddy I totally get it. Gotcha. Lol.

A massive ‘fuck you’ to the orgs that send both with the same address and make me break out the more advanced search features.

@usernameswift @maddy
wrong country, i’m aware, but when i read that my brain went into (something resembling) an australian accent and “aur naur, she unsubscribed from moi rewards”

@SeaDonut @maddy This had me on the floor 😭😭😭

I like how Google Fi STILL sends marketing mails to me even though they fucking know that the service is not available in my region.

For a data collection company, that’s pretty silly..

Excellent !

…who the fuck thought it was a good idea to switch their promotional emails from info@domain.tld to support@domain.tld?

@maddy reminds me of this ad lol

https://youtu.be/v49HcRUC6vM

[mockingly] <i>Oh no, that would be such a shame!</i>

@maddy

the asshole that reaslise all the promo stuff was getting unsub'd or deleted upon delivery and wanted to force some eyeballs to roll

Down to ~65,000

@maddy honestly the 11 is such a bizzare phone, maybe companies should stop doing yearly updates and do every 3 years with bigger changes, but alas money

@gen The vicious cycle of late-stage capitalism requires that a new shiny be released every year, or the ghosts of Nixon and Reagan will haunt their C-suites.

@maddy 👏

@maddy it wishes Google a very expire

@elexia Very same

@maddy honestly maybe calling it the Pixel 10 (2027) version would work, with no changes except bug fixes

@ericjames LOL

@maddy literally zero of these exist due to technical limitations. they literally just want to delay

@maddy all marketing should come from a distinct subdomain, an orgs domain should only send manually-written email from an actual human.

Down to ~52,000 unread messages, with many marketing emails unsubscribed and deleted. Taking a break for now.

@maddy oh my god you took care of 20,000 emails sheesh

@fiend4coffee This is what my brain decided to hyperfixate on today, I guess!

@maddy nicely done brain. Lol

I lied about the break, though I did eat lunch.

Down to ~41,500

@maddy impressive!

At this point, I seem to be down to lingering emails from orgs that no longer exist, so I have to browse through until I find one, and then delete or otherwise deal with them based on the domain or whatever.

Still going through emails intermittently.

Found this old gem from 2012. Snow Leopard was so good.

I still have the disc and its little box!

@maddy I’d be willing to bet it’s less to do with the tech stack, and more to do with what they can legally get away with under the law.

There is zero reason why an email can’t be immediately removed from a list as you clearly know, but the laws were probably based on snail mail, where the turn around between assembling the mailing list to dropping the mailer at the post office and then having it delivered can easily be a couple weeks or more.

@maddy snow leopard was the last version of mac I ever used

@maddy I need to do this at some point, although most of the stuff I don't care about at all is on an old email address that I don't really use any more anyway (and where I have 12986 unread emails). For my main email (where I currently have only 3091 unread emails) I need to set up some kind of dovecot filter to sort mailing lists that I do slightly care about into different directories (and also get a better spamfilter, I currently receive a lot of spam and just delete it manually)