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?
I don’t think marketing is a bad thing. As long as the companies provides an unsubscribe option i have no issue. I use Mozilla relay to filter out anything I don’t want to touch.
I don’t try optimize every minute of my day so I’ll always have time to do pointless activities.
For my emails Gmail separates emails into the inbox for normal emails and the promo tab for promotional mail. I read promo emails after I check my normal emails. I unsub from things I’m never going to be interested so my promo inbox has humble bundle, pbtech and pizza hut deals. My 3 hobbies pizza PCs and gaming.