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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Sorry, but what does any of that have to do with ereaderiq?
I like that ereaderiq requires only a simple email. Should your bank allow the same? Of course not. But ereaderiq, I'm fine with it.
Everything else you mentioned, yeah, it's a headache. But don't see the relation with this one specific example.
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Because it's part of the pattern of behavior by companies that enables all that to happen. I think what you're hung up on is the password bit. They don't need to require a password, all they need to do is send you an email saying, "Someone requested price alerts to be sent to this address. If this was really you, click on this link to confirm you want to receive these emails. Otherwise do nothing and we'll not bother you again." It'd require a few extra seconds to confirm you want to receive the emails, but it'd make sure they don't bother people who didn't request them. Every example I gave would have been stopped by requiring opt-in.
If you think that's too much work you're putting your convenience over the inconvenience of others, and you're part of the problem. Since you failed to consider what all that stuff I listed feels like being on the receiving end of consider this example instead: How'd you feel if someone used your address to sign you for price alerts at ereaderIQ with a book that would cause misunderstandings if others saw the email? For example,
How To Cheat On Your Wife And Not Get Caught? or
The Anarchist Cookbook? (Which can unfairly get you on terrorist watch lists in some countries.) Would you want those to require opt-in instead of being automatic? I suspect you would.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I've occasionally gotten my email address used where it should not be. Mailing lists can be the worst as there's no unsubscribe link and you have to tell them you didn't sign up for their mailing list over and over.
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I've reached a point where if there's no clear unsubscribe link, I flag it as spam. If Gmail asks if I want to unsubscribe and mark spam I'll do so. Sometimes the mailing lists have an unsubscribe thing in the header info that Gmail hides. But yeah, they're bad and usually warn you it can take weeks before they actually remove your address.