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I would not interpret "visiting a single page" to mean one-click. Of course, I agree that one-click is the right way to do things.

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I think "visiting a single page" means precisely one-click.

Because once click takes you to the page. Any further action, even while you're on that same page, is an additional requirement, which is disallowed.

It allows requiring an email address.

How could you unsubscribe an email address without asking which one?

You provide a special link that someone can follow that has an ID of some type associated with the email.

It is the spirit if not the letter of the law. Nobody intended someone to use 50 AJAX steps on a single page to skirt the law.

And, moreover, requiring a login or any personal information to unsubscribe is specifically disallowed by the law.

With the important exception of an email address. Most of the time the part that annoys me the most is entering that because at best I have to check what it was sent to (many email accounts all going into one gmail) and at worst, it wasn't sent directly to me, so I have to try harder.

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