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Rikkitic

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#309340 9-Oct-2023 22:40

I just received an email from Shopify updating their ‘terms of service’. To the best of my knowledge I have never intentionally had anything whatsoever to do with Shopify and I go out of my way to keep my email addresses as clean as possible. Usually I hit the unsubscribe button but of course Shopify, which shows a Canadian address, doesn’t have one.

It does have other links and I managed to find a page to delete my data but that has just led to an endless circle of forms and verifications. Nowhere can I just remove myself from their mailing list. How can I get this damned site out of my life?

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#3144786 10-Oct-2023 00:39

It could be a phishing email, buecase I can't see why they would email you unless you setup an ecommerce website or trial. But think they do have an 0800 number to call.

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#3144787 10-Oct-2023 02:28

I received the same email the other day - I think for me it is a case of using online stores which use Shopify as a payment gateway, retailers like Coffee Supreme, Woodsman, or IPP NZ. I think the emails will stem from the data linked to online purchases from retailers using Shopify. But similarly, the receipt of the email made me curious as to why I was receiving it as well. That the pesky emails asking me if I would like to track the purchases through the Shopify app.. :|

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#3144792 10-Oct-2023 07:24

Delete the emails. Don't click the links. Even if they are completely safe they will still be doing analytics on clicks etc. Block it, move on.

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#3144799 10-Oct-2023 08:37

Shopify is probably the single biggest ecommerce platform out there now. If you regularly buy online you would have touched their service. In fact when you use Shopify across different vendors, they can recognise you and often offer SMS verification to use your details again.

Given that the internet is public, and once you give your email address out you lose control I would be more inclined to take a more pragmatic approach to the email - and stress less about having your data deleted. After all that is just a promise, you have no way to verify it has happened.

So if the mail was unsolicited push the Junk Mail button and move on.

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#3144803 10-Oct-2023 08:50

I am really fed up with corporate marketing departments using email as a dumping ground for their trash. I have a really well controlled email workflow, but the odd spam email still manages to slip through.

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#3144813 10-Oct-2023 09:26

I get all of the above and have marked Shopify as spam. It still irritates me.

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#3144817 10-Oct-2023 09:50

Rikkitic:

I get all of the above and have marked Shopify as spam. It still irritates me.

The whole 'send me your money' paradigm is the scourge of the internet. Whether it's scammers, give-a-little begging because someone couldn't be arsed buying travel insurance, pop-ups asking for donations or advertising plastered all over websites in general. I appreciate the latter two pay to keep a lot of sites up and running and I will tolerate it on those that have some interest for me but agreed, overall ****ing irritating.

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#3144829 10-Oct-2023 10:19

Rikkitic:

I get all of the above and have marked Shopify as spam. It still irritates me.

If you're going to let the unsolvable problem of spam irritate you, you'll be irritated for the rest of your life, or until you disable your email accounts.

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#3144830 10-Oct-2023 10:25

My link to them also came from using an online shop that was associated with their order service.

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#3144879 10-Oct-2023 10:41

gehenna:

Rikkitic:

I get all of the above and have marked Shopify as spam. It still irritates me.

If you're going to let the unsolvable problem of spam irritate you, you'll be irritated for the rest of your life, or until you disable your email accounts.

I am fairly relentless about spam and I usually manage to keep my accounts relatively spam-free. It irritates me when one eludes me but I get great satisfaction from the ones that don't.

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#3144918 10-Oct-2023 12:29

Pro tip: Purchase your own domain(s), configure wildcard emails so they all go to the same inbox, use a unique email address for every single different website and organisation. e.g. websitename@mydomain.com

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#3144927 10-Oct-2023 12:49

Can do that easily enough with aliases in webmail services without needing a custom domain.

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#3145023 10-Oct-2023 19:14

gehenna:

Can do that easily enough with aliases in webmail services without needing a custom domain.

Fair, but I like not being reliant on any particular provider, which you don't get without a custom domain.