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Have you noticed certain financial providers sending blatant marketing emails with no unsubscribe option and a comment along the lines of "these emails are not marketing"




This is illegal practice in the EU

Yet rife. My complaint to a major UK provide was rebuffed with the blatently false assertion that the email promoting a website refresh was an essential service email.

It's illegal in the US too as far as I'm aware. But you missed the part where they clearly stated "it's not marketing" ;)

They go in the junk folder and then get marked and reported as spam.

Dangerous, since this invites genuine service emails to be junked.

The corporate version of video-uploaders writing "no copyright infringement intended", except with less an an excuse for not knowing better.

"For Off-road Use Only"

Yes, but not anywhere near as annoying for me at least.



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