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People who read marketing emails, where do you find the time to do so? And why? (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by trk@aussie.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I assume there are people who read these things, otherwise companies wouldn't send me so many of them. I seem to get daily spam from literally any company I've ever interacted with in any way, and they are long boys full of text and pictures that Thunderbird helpfully hides from me but I presume are full of jagged brightly coloured stars saying "DEAL DEAL DEAL" or whatever.

Mostly I click delete on these emails faster than the email client can even load them, but every so often I peruse a few sentences of the trade specific items that give a headline that promises actually interesting information... but its always just more marketing guff disguised as a news story.

It's obviously making someone money to spam the world constantly, so I assume someone is reading these things and acting on them.

Who are you?
Why are you interacting with the spam and making it viable for companies to keep sending it?
What do you do that you have so much free time you can allocate some of it to consuming it?

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[–] comfydecal@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm single and only hand my email out to companies I want information from

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That seems a little bit too simple to be true. How do you handle online shopping, where you often are required to provide a mail address, even though you have no wish whatsoever to receive any subsequent marketing mails?

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

Have a seperate email for junk mail, or use a email forwarding service like simplelogin

[–] comfydecal@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

There are lots of services to just receive the first email and then none others. Issue is these are flagged by larger companies, so having g multiple accounts is useful in those scenarios.

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Many companies just turn around and sell your email info to big marketing lists. You often have to provide an email to sign into many services or receive notifications, that is one of the ways they get you over time.