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How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work? (2020) (leavemealone.app)
2 points by ddtaylor on May 30, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



If you’re curious, the discussion in 2020 got 466 points and 263 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23350881


The thing about the unsubscribe button that I've found, if you use an alias, hackernews@example.com but your 'real' email is mike@example.com (catch-all email), Gmail unsubscribe will submit the 'real' email, mike@example.com, which doesn't work and can back fire by giving spammers your 'real' email.




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