Annoying marketing practices - eviltoast

I recieved this email today. I don’t use twitch, only made an account once for some specific purpose. I don’t know these people and I’m a 100% certain they don’t know me. This is just toxic marketing to lure me back in.

  • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    Opt-in by default is illegal, so OP has every right to be annoyed.

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      4 months ago

      Didn’t know that. Can you tell me who is supposed to enforce this and where is the law from?

      When you accept the ToS I always understood that I was signing in for emails, just like (in my experience) 100% of other services/sites like Spotify, Proton, Bandcamp, eBay, Facebook, X, GitHub… well I’m not gonna list every single one but you get me.

      Still, thank you for educating me.

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        4 months ago

        It’s EU’s GDPR.

        Anything like a newsletter or marketing must be opt-in. And it cannot be bundled with other consent, that is they can’t refuse to provide you a service if opt-in isn’t absolutely necessary.

        To be honest, not sure if any other countries have such laws.