I assume there are people who read these things, otherwise companies wouldn’t send me so many of them. I seem to get daily spam from literally any company I’ve ever interacted with in any way, and they are long boys full of text and pictures that Thunderbird helpfully hides from me but I presume are full of jagged brightly coloured stars saying “DEAL DEAL DEAL” or whatever.
Mostly I click delete on these emails faster than the email client can even load them, but every so often I peruse a few sentences of the trade specific items that give a headline that promises actually interesting information… but its always just more marketing guff disguised as a news story.
It’s obviously making someone money to spam the world constantly, so I assume someone is reading these things and acting on them.
- Who are you?
- Why are you interacting with the spam and making it viable for companies to keep sending it?
- What do you do that you have so much free time you can allocate some of it to consuming it?
For anyone that already has an iCloud subscription, “Hide my email” does essentially the same thing and can’t be sanitized as it’s an actual separate alias that Apple creates for you. If you end up getting to much spam in a certain alias you can delete it and migrate the account to a brand new alias
Well to add to that then, Microsoft outlook also has a free alias service, which work as a redirect email that you can enable/disable at will. But I believe there’s a limit to those, so I just use my Gmail address most times.