DNSFilter estimates that 1 in every 644 email unsubscribe links is liable to send a user to possibly malicious sites. And while that might seem like a low percentage at first glance, try to count how many times you clicked “Delete” on junk or unwanted inbox messages in the last week alone.
Not many, these days. Google does a good job of separating out the actual spam. The vast majority doesn't even go to the spam folder; they just delete it. Dunno what criteria they use but I'd bet most of it is really really obviously bad.
I see some legal commercial email, and if I did in fact do some kind of business with them, I hit unsubscribe and they stop. No harm, no foul.
I see some legal commercial email in my spam folder. I never want it, but I unsubscribe, and again, no harm no foul. My spam folder is down to about one per day. (Plus untold thousands that I never see at all.)
It's surely not perfect and perhaps once or twice a year something genuinely dangerous gets into my inbox. Given the wild wild West that email was until recently I take that calmly. Email was rapidly approaching unusable a decade ago.
Not many, these days. Google does a good job of separating out the actual spam. The vast majority doesn't even go to the spam folder; they just delete it. Dunno what criteria they use but I'd bet most of it is really really obviously bad.
I see some legal commercial email, and if I did in fact do some kind of business with them, I hit unsubscribe and they stop. No harm, no foul.
I see some legal commercial email in my spam folder. I never want it, but I unsubscribe, and again, no harm no foul. My spam folder is down to about one per day. (Plus untold thousands that I never see at all.)
It's surely not perfect and perhaps once or twice a year something genuinely dangerous gets into my inbox. Given the wild wild West that email was until recently I take that calmly. Email was rapidly approaching unusable a decade ago.