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>There really seems to be no loophole or workaround despite there being huge incentive for there to be one. Every time I click an “Unsubscribe” link in an email...

The loophole is that companies now claim that the email is 'service' related as part of your 'account relationship' so you cannot unsubscribe at all, even though it clearly is for marketing and promotion.

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That’s what the report spam button is for.

That doesn’t work well when you actually do need to receive emails from them once in a while.

Equifax abuses this to the extreme, with every single change to your credit usage triggering an “account related” alert. But you still need to allow them for that one time they actually send a useful alert.

It seems like we have all the tools we need to filter email with classification by language models.

And what masked emails are for. I use this with fastmail and my own domain, it’s amazing.

Agreed. I get daily emails from Salesforce/Tableau that start, "this is a non-promotional email," as if those magic words cleanse anything that follows.

Yep. The company that my 401K is managed through began sending me these stupid emails about “Tips to manage your wealth”, and it was marked as an email that could not be unsubscribed from because it was pertinent to my account. It took an angry note left on their feedback form with a threat to report them to get those emails to finally stop showing up. It’s disgusting. I literally can’t even tell which emails I need to pay attention to that are about my 401K because they mingle spam in there.

Such as loyalty programs you apparently automatically signed up for when you shopped at a store.

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