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With the amount of junk mail people get weekly, I was curious if there are ways you can block, remove or filter the actual mail from ever getting to your mailbox.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Be careful about "unsubscribing" to various services.

They will unsubscribe you, but then they also have all of your information (name, address, anything else) on record and confirmed. They can profit when the sell that data to another mailer "service". It's like a Hydra.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which country? I don't think this is the case in germany

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Right, many Europeans have basic consumer protections lol

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