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Obviously not looking for hyperaccurate answers, just in general, how many people tend to unsubscribe from promotional emails and how many tick the option "I never signed up for this"?

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[โ€“] jballs@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same here. Still blows my mind though. Like do these people think if they just write down an address, then it's magically theirs?

[โ€“] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The amount of people who think that their email is only accessible on one computer (as if it were a literal mailbox) actually leads me to believe that yes, many people probably are this dumb.

[โ€“] ZeroEcks@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Does not help that before webmail and IMAP or whatever it basically did work this way lol

[โ€“] Drusas@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I wonder this often.