Cloudflare have made it impossible for me to unsubscribe from marketing emails
This morning, I received a marketing email from Cloudflare (through one of our mailing groups), being militant about these kinds of emails, I immediately go to unsubscribe. Dark pattern one: You must login to manage your marketing preferences. There's no security related emails here, so this is completely unnecessary. Dark pattern two: "...confirm your email address to save your communication preferences.". I've no idea how we have a several-year old account without a confirmed email, but it should not have to confirm an email to remove old marketing preferences - or if cloudflare is so careful about this, why did it end up opted-in ion the first place? Dark pattern two-point-five is that the email somehow became unverified - something it seems is only necessary to adjust marketing emails. Okay, so I hit the "Resend verification email" link and check my inbo
Why it failed
This morning, I received a marketing email from Cloudflare (through one of our mailing groups), being militant about these kinds of emails, I immediately go to unsubscribe. Dark pattern one: You must login to manage your marketing preferences. There's no security related ema
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- sdflhasjd
- Ended
- 2022
- Source
- hackernews