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<h1 class="article-title">It's 2016, and Microsoft is the only legit player who spams me without unsubscribe links</h1>
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<p>I'm so tired of Microsoft spam. Microsoft is known for being intrusive accross the board, and their newsletters are no different: I literally can't name one legit company in this day and age who doesn't put unsubscribe links in newsletters.<a class="footnoteRef" href="#fn1" id="fnref1"><sup>1</sup></a> I get "Azure pricing and services updates" newsletters all the time, as well as "exciting news" from Windows Insider Program (which doesn't excite me at all) every once in a short while.<a class="footnoteRef" href="#fn2" id="fnref2"><sup>2</sup></a> I still occasionally receive random Chinese language promotions of Windows, presumably because I used a Windows Phone as my secondary phone for three months back home in the summer of 2013 (which was a horrible experience). Why Microsoft hasn't been regulated for spam yet, I do not know.</p>
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<li id="fn1"><p>To be fair, Amazon used to force promotional email on student members, but (if memory serves) I haven't seen one in ages.<a class="footnotes-backlink" href="#fnref1">↩︎</a></p></li>
<li id="fn2"><p>"If you wish to stop receiving Windows Insider Program emails, you will need to leave the program." I guess that's the price of downloading a couple of Windows 10 insider builds.<a class="footnotes-backlink" href="#fnref2">↩︎</a></p></li>
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