That is implied in some of the e-mails - that is, they're asking you for explicit opt-in permission to keep mailing you. Mind you the old required 'unsubscribe' link was often adequate, but I don't mind this either.

The flood of emails is a nice reminder of how many services you're signed up with, too. Some even with multiple e-mail addresses.

You're joking, but my fridge did hand me a GDPR notice in the morning:

https://twitter.com/varjag/status/998496423019778048

It's a common misconception, but consent is only one of the 6 recognized lawful basis for processing specifically recognized by the GDPR, and a company may contact you when any one is applicable. For example, if you have an existing business relationship via a contract (you bought something), or the business has a legal obligation to inform you of changes, or the nebulous "legitimate interests" basis on behalf of the business.

Those emails which ask you to click to continue to receive marketing are a red flag that those companies did not have any legal basis previously, or they're just cargo-culting other companies even though they already have a perfectly valid basis to keep in touch (like you being a an actual customer). Check out your favorite big-company SaaS signup today (like, Jira), you will still typically not see any explicit consent checkboxes, because due to a customer relationship it is not needed.

If you're in the US, it's often not a bad bet to backburner compliance with ill-conceived, fuzzily-defined law that is going into effect 2+ years in the future. Chance are good that a new crop of House of Representatives members will have been voted in during the intervening time, possibly flopping the majority, and the provisions of the statute in question will either be reversed, endlessly delayed, or mangled out of all recognition from their original form.

From that perspective, this whole trainwreck makes considerably more sense.

> so I assume that me ignoring them means they won't be allowed to spam me anymore.

In my case, many of them assumed silence as accepting the new terms.

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