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Comment by enumjorge | Hacker News Reader

I’ll add another pet peeve to the list: unsubscribe links that remove you from only 1 of N number of lists they have. You click unsubscribe but a few days later you’re still getting mail because you got removed from “news” emails but this one is a “promotional” email.

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I recently unsubscribed from all but one (the account tips) of the Firefox newsletters, because they were sending too much stuff I wasn't really interested in. The next day I get a new Email from them.

Subject: "Was it something we said? crying emoji". Body: "If you want to go... we won't stop you. [...]" Footer: "You're receiving this email because [...] subscribed to Firefox Account Tips.

Yeah, thanks for the ~~tip~~ spam.

Felt like going through one of those dark pattern flows that Spotify or Amazon have when you try to unsubscribe from their paid plans, trying to guilt you into reconsidering.

That's pretty ironic coming from a company whose main value proposition is "we aren't assholes like other tech companies are." That and the annoying crap you have to disable when you install Firefox to get a blank new tab page.

(Still better than Google, though.)

How can you get a blank page? What do I need to delete?

The simplest way is to click the gear on the new tab page and uncheck items you don't want. If you uncheck everything you will still have the gear icon present. If you want to hide that then your are in userChrome.css territory.

I just have Options -> Home -> New tabs set to "Blank Page" and that works just fine without any icons.

You might find https://twitter.com/Joe8Bit/status/1156312965265707013 an interesting read, in how the delayed removal of you from lists could be down to someone having to manually remove you & needless bureaucracy.

Indeed. And locating the page where you can unsubscribe to all these lists is usually made intentionally difficult with various dark patterns.

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