Gmail releases its feedback loop and a new unsubscribe button
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Last week was the 30th conference of the MAAWG (an association that federates the fight against spam, among other things) in San Francisco. This conference was the occasion of a important announcement from Google. The giant of Mountain View has indeed announced the availability of its feedback loop.
Pour une fois, c’est Gmail qui rejoint les autres grands webmails américain. Ceux-ci proposent en effet un Feedback Loop depuis plusieurs années. Mais comme souvent, Gmail ne fait pas les choses comme ses concurrents.
The Gmail Feedback Loop in practice
Open only to MAAWG member routers for now, this new feedback loop does not identify the complainant. A bit like what SignalSpam has set up with SFR and Orange in France, the objective here is to offer an additional tool to routers in order to detect senders generating numerous complaints. In practice, the router will be able to receive a CSV file containing three columns: the date, an identifier (which will be provided by the router in the header of the email to identify the sender) and a complaint rate (source: Wordtothewise).
The other new feature: the unsubscribe button
Il y avait déjà un bouton de désinscription basé sur la fonction List-Unsubscribe présente dans le header de certains emails. Mais ce bouton n’était pas simple à trouver vu qu’il fallait cliquer sur une petite flêche pour le découvrir.
Cette fois, Gmail voit les choses en grand et met clairement cette partie en avant au détriment du lien de désinscription présent dans l’email. Le bouton sera maintenant situé à côté du nom de l’expéditeur. Pour l’internaute, c’est une très bonne nouvelle puisqu’il gagne du temps. Et pour l’annonceur, c’est aussi une bonne nouvelle. Simplifier la désinscription permettra une baisse des plaintes spam, ce qui a un effet extrêmement positif.
Source: Campaign Monitor
Remember that Gmail's List-Unsubscribe is based on an email address to which a message will be automatically sent when a user clicks on the unsubscribe button. Moreover, if Gmail's feedback loop does not identify the complainant, let's recall that by configuring the List-Unsubscribe, the author of the complaint will see this screen displayed:
By clicking the "Unsubscribe and report spam" button, the subscriber not only generates a spam complaint, but also sends an unsubscribe request to the advertiser via List-Unsubscribe.
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