Has TrackNewBooks.com gone rogue?

taustin · 04-11-2013, 12:04 PM

This morning I get two notices of New York Times bestsellers. I did not ask for this. I have four or five authors that I've signed up to watch. That's it. I notice a lot of Opt-out links at the bottom. WTF? Turns out, apparently, they have added something like a thousand authors for me to track. And I apparently have to opt out of each one individually. (And they're sending the notices through Google, which makes blocking them at the server level more difficult unless you want to block everything from Google.

Are they really that clueless? Or have they just gone rogue?

bgalbrecht · 04-11-2013, 09:02 PM

You need to add a toggle-all-checkboxes bookmarklet to your bookmarks so you can opt out of all of them in one fell swoop.

04-11-2013, 12:04 PM	#1
taustin Wizard Posts: 1,358 Karma: 5766642 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Nook	Has TrackNewBooks.com gone rogue? This morning I get two notices of New York Times bestsellers. I did not ask for this. I have four or five authors that I've signed up to watch. That's it. I notice a lot of Opt-out links at the bottom. WTF? Turns out, apparently, they have added something like a thousand authors for me to track. And I apparently have to opt out of each one individually. (And they're sending the notices through Google, which makes blocking them at the server level more difficult unless you want to block everything from Google. Are they really that clueless? Or have they just gone rogue?

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04-11-2013, 09:02 PM	#2
bgalbrecht Wizard Posts: 1,806 Karma: 13399999 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: US Device: Nook Simple Touch, Kobo Glo HD, Kobo Clara HD, Kindle 4	You need to add a toggle-all-checkboxes bookmarklet to your bookmarks so you can opt out of all of them in one fell swoop.

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