Sounds like they have not got CORS set up on their servers either? Surely it should not allow mutating requests from random origins not on an allowlist?
How can you know that it "works"? Any company scummy enough to send spam to begin with, is capable of selling their customer data to a network of scummy companies that will do the same thing. I think most of the "unsubscribe" links are there to fulfill some legal obligation. They don't do what they're supposed to do, and might in fact be making things worse for the person who clicks them.
The only solution I've found to work, beyond the usual spam filtering, is to setup email on your own domain, and give every company a unique address. The moment you want to stop receiving email from them, you simply block their address. This deals both with the original company, and with anyone they've sold your contact information to.
> OneTrust is literally a consent management platform focused on regulatory compliance, and 24 Hour Fitness is using it to violate consent regulations.
I mean, OneTrust's entire raison d'etre is to violate consent regulations with flimsy deniability.
If anyone from Shop.app is here, your unsubscribe does not work either (maybe due to VPN usage).
But that's okay, Fastmail now automatically routes it to the spam folder where it belongs.
additionally:
Interesting, I set my email as a backup authentication for a luddite friend's Comcast email account, and I just discovered spam from Xfinity in my spam folder. Shame on you Xfinity Comcast.
The problem:
My understanding is the CAN-SPAM Act violations can only be prosecuted by states Attorney Generals, there is no civil action available.
Walmart has a toggle explicitly for product review emails. I have toggled it off. I still get weekly review emails. I now make it my mission to give 1 star to every product they email me about with a note that their unsubscribe is broken.
Once, their CSR “escalated” my issue, but I never heard back. If you work in Walmart engineering, please fix the review unsubscribe.
If 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, big email providers like gmail should automatically mark all of their emails as spam by default until they fix it.
Applied to a job at Oracle 3 years ago. For a couple of years their unsubscribe link went to a broken page . Now they totally ignore my unsubscription choice and keep sending me job offers anyway
Reading the comments the author is basically "one with ai" where his life is deeply integrated with ai agents.
I have a friend exactly like that. And he has being doing it so long that he cannot even respond to a discord without asking AI "what do you think? what should I say? what do you think they mean?"
Full NPC mode, and it's really sad and scary.
You lose the ability to think. You lose all differentiation.
My first OpenClaw agent was born on February 7, 2026. I now have 3 claws and am planning for more. They have catalyzed my self-actualization and improved my critical thinking. I’ve never felt so alive.
I don’t see what’s sad or scary about this. AI agents are the next iPhone.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 46.3 ms ] threadThe only solution I've found to work, beyond the usual spam filtering, is to setup email on your own domain, and give every company a unique address. The moment you want to stop receiving email from them, you simply block their address. This deals both with the original company, and with anyone they've sold your contact information to.
One man's bug is another man's feature.
I mean, OneTrust's entire raison d'etre is to violate consent regulations with flimsy deniability.
But that's okay, Fastmail now automatically routes it to the spam folder where it belongs.
additionally:
Interesting, I set my email as a backup authentication for a luddite friend's Comcast email account, and I just discovered spam from Xfinity in my spam folder. Shame on you Xfinity Comcast.
The problem:
My understanding is the CAN-SPAM Act violations can only be prosecuted by states Attorney Generals, there is no civil action available.
Once, their CSR “escalated” my issue, but I never heard back. If you work in Walmart engineering, please fix the review unsubscribe.
2. I also see it as a modern tower of Babylon. A linguistic equalizer of sorts.
You’re right though, upon re-read there are some places in this article where my authentic voice doesn’t come through. Re-writing.
I have a friend exactly like that. And he has being doing it so long that he cannot even respond to a discord without asking AI "what do you think? what should I say? what do you think they mean?"
Full NPC mode, and it's really sad and scary.
You lose the ability to think. You lose all differentiation.
I don’t see what’s sad or scary about this. AI agents are the next iPhone.