{"id":28534,"date":"2021-07-03T08:48:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T13:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28534"},"modified":"2021-07-02T07:26:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T12:26:07","slug":"wait-a-minute-its-a-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/03\/wait-a-minute-its-a-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait A Minute&#8211;It&#8217;s A Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I have been pruning my email inbox by unsubscribing from various newsletters.  I mean, the Type 1 Diabetes Foundation has sent me several updates a week after I supported a friend in a walkathon a couple years ago&#8211;I don&#8217;t need that.  Companies that I ordered one-off gifts from that somehow ignored the fact that I did not explicitly opt-in to further communications sent me weekly come-ons, as though something I bought my eight year old would appeal to my fifteen year old.  <\/p>\n<p>I started clicking the unsubscribe links in them and successfully trimmed the number of emails I receive daily.  But when I clicked Unsubscribe on the State Historical Society of Missouri email (I was a member several years ago, but let my membership lapse because the monthly magazine was a little academic for my taste, and I never went to the events.<\/p>\n<p>I got all the invitations, though, and information about programs I wouldn&#8217;t participate in or support, so I clicked the Unsubscribe link in it.<\/p>\n<p>And got this email:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/confirmsubscription.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Hah!  Click to confirm your subscription because you&#8217;re unsubscribing.<\/p>\n<p>I did click through it just in case they meant it, but, no, it really is asking you to confirm that you want to subscribe to the mailing list.<\/p>\n<p>Which I did not.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see if I am unsubscribed or if I have to start marking it as spam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have been pruning my email inbox by unsubscribing from various newsletters. I mean, the Type 1 Diabetes Foundation has sent me several updates a week after I supported a friend in a walkathon a couple years ago&#8211;I don&#8217;t need that. Companies that I ordered one-off gifts from that somehow ignored the fact that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28535,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28534\/revisions\/28535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}