corap21•13d agoProlific Poster

Tried scanning a QR code at my coffee shop and signed up for 6 spam newsletters instead

Has anyone else had a random QR code mess up their whole inbox?

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3 Comments

Gotta disagree hard on that one man. Unsubscribing is never actually free because it's your time they're wasting, and time is literally money. Plus half the time those unsubscribe buttons don't even work, they just reroute you to another spam page or take 10 clicks to finally opt out. And even if you do get off one list, these spam newsletters breed like rabbits and sell your info to 50 other companies. Before you know it you're getting 200 emails a day from random crypto scams and MLM pitches. It's a total nightmare that starts with one innocent QR scan.

the_hayden13d ago

Isn't unsubscribing basically free though?

patricia26213d agoMost Upvoted

My uncle tried to unsubscribe from a newsletter once, ended up on a call with some guy in Bangalore who kept trying to sell him a timeshare. Three hours later he owned a condo in Florida he never visited. So no, it's not free. That unsubscribe button is basically a trapdoor to another dimension of spam. I swear those companies share lists faster than my grandma shares chain emails about the government putting fluoride in the water to track us. Time is money, and clicking through 17 menus to finally opt out is a job nobody wants.