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It's a civil lawsuit.

If I cannot just click a button and unsubscribe, guess what, you are malicious spam.

And if you can't figure out how to make an unsubscribe page that doesn't require a captcha (and is triggered by email scanners) you are incompetent. Claude can figure it out.

> and is triggered by email scanners

Did you mean "and is NOT triggered by email scanners"?

AFAIU, "email scanners" get more aggressive over time, so there is no once-and-forever solution. I guess AI-enabled email scanners can attempt to solve captchas as well.


Yeah, use `List-Unsubscribe`. Has the additional advantage that I don't need to find the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of some bloaty HTML, works across languages etc.

If the email scanner of your recipient insists on clicking "unsubscribe" on their behalf without that being the desired outcome, that's not on you to prevent them from.


I mean if your unsubscribe link unsubscribes someone just because Microsoft Email Phishing for Copilot visited the link to see if it was a Virus, then you need to “get gud” as the kids say.

The fault lies with Microsoft Email Phishing for Copilot or with the European Commission.

Email scanners don't exactly publish the methods by which you can reliably determine if a page was loaded or a link was clicked by a security scanner. If they did not appear human, then they'd be easy to trick and then not do their security job well.

Not at all.

Remember, they're cattle, not pets.

Ill sell you tokens for just 1 cent each, as many as you want. Bargain!


Shhh, don't interrupt their persecution complex



In the 14 hours since that flagged post, the OP has changed _nothing_ in that repo to address the feedback people gave him, and instead decided to just resubmit his proj to HN.


Great way to hide your alchemical texts.


Good job blocking firefox.


Sorry for the bad experience. The blocking of Firefox is not intentional. It's a decade old code and seems to be breaking on Firefox.


Fix the title. No one seems to recognize "TDF" (The Document Foundation) despite their daily dramatics, myself included.


"The Document Foundation" for anyone too lazy to look it up.

It has been a while since I've noticed a high-profile OSS schism; for anyone who isn't used to them, this is how communities behave. They're generally healthy as long as the stakes aren't too high. In a lighter moment, I might also call on TDF to expel any vim users too in the hope that they'll take the hint and switch to a more C-x aligned editor.


:tabnew<Enter>a Begone Emacs harlot! The user's of the one true universal editor will not be done away with so easily!<Esc>:wq!


I tried changing it, but I guess when a post hits the fp this is not possible anymore (only by mods).


It's not affected by hitting the FP but the edit window is 2 hours. I've edited it now. Sorry I didn't see this earlier!


Tour de France, obviously.


In France, TDF is a company that operates big TV and FM radio antennas, including on the Eiffel Tower and on many mountain-top.


Tours de France? ;)

(Pun explainer: silent s, so it sounds like the cycling event. Meaning Towers of France - tour means both tower and tour[en] in French, only their grammatical gender is different)


Clearly it stands for the Tiscrete Dourier Fransform


Transform Daddy Fourier


Talkin Dirty Floozies


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