[billysielu]

I've unsubscribed before only to find myself subscribed to a bunch of similar things instead. Clicking a link confirms your address reaches a person and is therefore worth spamming. Plus the risk of phishing. Plus the dark patterns in the unsubscribe UI.

[peteretep]

> Clicking a link confirms your address reaches a person and is therefore worth spamming

I think this is received wisdom that might have been true 20 years ago, but doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

[ColinWright]

I use unique email addresses for everything, so I know where emails come from. More than once in the last two years I have unsubscribed from lists using the unsubscribe link, only then to have that email address received emails from new sources.

So for me, it does stand up to scrutiny, it still happens.