trombi - the social networking site that has no concern for your privacy

[gusl]

I've been using my recent free time to unsubscribe from most of the lists I've signed up for over the years (just from CMU: frisbee, capoeira, theatre improv, juggling, ballroom, chicken swing; Pittsburgh: SCA-BMDL, oldtime jams, EMay's newsletter, tango, contact improv). But some of the corporate lists have been quite sticky.

MassageExchange was one. But I think I've succeeded, finally.

Trombi was the other. For a few years, I've been trying to stop receiving email from them. Today, I tried again, and found this at the bottom.

<< Il n'est pas possible de se désabonner de cette newsletter. >>

WTF?? I've never heard anyone say that in English! Even spammers aren't so uppity about it.

Then I found this on a Forum (no link because has browser-spam)

Merci pour cet article, effectivement, je me rends compte que je suis inscrite à beaucoup trop de ces sites... Mais en fait, les deux qui m'intéressent le plus ne sont pas mentionnés dans votre article (j'imagine que ce ne sont pas des Web 2.0?) ce sont les vieux copainsdavant.com et trombi.com
Je n'ai rien de particulier contre eux, mais l'information sur moi est disponible sur les moteurs de recherche, ce que j'aimerais vraiment éviter! Au moins, sur Facebook et autres, on peut s'y opposer assez facilement, et comme ces sites n'ont pas une popularité de folie, ça peut encore aller (même si mes demandes de désinscription sont ignorées tant par l'un que par l'autre site)...

Not only does he share my complaint, but his personal information is publically visible to search engines, and they won't let him hide it.

Comments

[bhudson.livejournal.com]

<< Il n'est pas possible de se désabonner de cette newsletter. >>

Wow, that's awesome.

ILOG (who sell constraint satisfaction and linear and quadratic optimization software) have a "REMOVE" link that they simply ignore. Luckily, with google, it's easy to filter them straight to the trash bin.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

you mean, by training GMail's Spam filter to recognize ILOG spam?

[bhudson.livejournal.com]

I mean, by using gmail's filtering abilities. The link is a bit hard to find; search for "filter" in the gmail view.

[gregh1983]

Au moins, sur Facebook et autres [...] et comme ces sites n'ont pas une popularité de folie

Wow, that makes two unexpected statements in your post. I guess it's not as big in Europe, then?

[combinator.livejournal.com]

Ceci n'est pas une newsletter.