Post by hechelion in Does Itch give your email to partners for marketing purposes? How does my Itch email keep getting put on these mailing lists?

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As others have mentioned, the email isn't coming from an external developer account, but from Itch.

The system is supposed to work like this:

If I'm a developer, I can send a message to everyone who owns my game. The message is sent through Itch, which is why you'll receive an email from Itch at the email address associated with your Itch account at that time.

I recommend reading this post:

https://itch.io/t/1856548/how-do-i-turn-off-email-notifications-for-games-i-have...

https://itch.io/t/859194/questions-regarding-emails-to-people-who-purchased-a-ga...

In your settings, you have an option to download all the information Itch has about your account. If you download it, you should be able to see a list of all the games associated with your account, and I'm sure those games/developers will appear there. It's most likely due to the purchase of a bundle, but if you think it was a mistake, you should try contacting support.

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no fun3 days ago

Thanks for the breakdown. My concern is its the bundles, though. I don't consider an item in a bundle as me engaging with that specific developer, but now I'm on potentially hundreds of mailing lists.

Do you know if there's a way to remove myself from this sort of list in bulk?

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hechelion2 days ago

I'm not 100% sure, but I think all those emails belong to the "New uploads are added to something I bought or follow" category, which you can disable in your preferences.

https://itch.io/user/settings/email-notifications

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no fun2 days ago

That's been disabled for ages, so that can't be it. :(

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redonihunter1 day ago(+1)

It is this feature https://itch.io/docs/creators/interact

And that feature works for people that do not even have an Itch account. For those it would be the only method of updating them about new content, I guess.

But apparantly, some developers actually join big bundles to send such mails.

Anyway, you do not need to interact with a game to be put on the mailing list. You need to own it. If it is in your library under the purchased items, you are automatically on such a list. I am not sure if I misremember, but it could be that big bundles are supposed to be configured in a way, that you would need to manually add the items from the bundle to your library, for that mailing list thing to trigger. Maybe that changed or maybe the bundle was not configured properly.

Or maybe you did add the games to your library, either manually or by a script. Some older discussions about that issue mention people adding games from big bundles via script. But that's beside the point actually. The mailing list feature is active for single purchases as well, with no way of opting out before you get the first mail.

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no fun1 day ago

Thank you!! This has to be it. I thought I was going crazy.

I'm annoyed I can't bulk unsubscribe, especially since it's through Itch, so they know all the lists my email's added to. Someone needs to get Itch's attention with this, it feels like a spam loophole to get around some countries' opt-out-by-default solicitation laws.

Anyway, this helps and breaks it down for me, thanks so much for taking the time to respond.

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