Lets name and shame irritating companies

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
I'm starting with this one ashampoo

I've got junk emails from them nearly every day since downloading their software -- I've uninstalled and their email goes automatically to JUNK / SPAM folder.

Don't deal with companies who continually spam users of their products or keep trying to upsell to paid / more expensive versions.

I don't care how good the product is if the company does this type of thing "to annoyance" levels.

Cheers
jimbo

Maybe this could be a sticky to act as a service to help prevent grief for users. A couple of months ago I downloaded a freeware app, might have been from ashampoo and it quickly drove me nuts with spam and notifications nagging me to purchase. After a few days, it went to the bin.

Users could search the folder for app names before downloading them.

Just unsubscribe - or have you and you still get spam?

Hello @jimbo45,

jimbo45 said:

I'm starting with this one ashampoo

I've got junk emails from them nearly every day since downloading their software -- I've uninstalled and their email goes automatically to JUNK / SPAM folder.

Don't deal with companies who continually spam users of their products or keep trying to upsell to paid / more expensive versions.

I don't care how good the product is if the company does this type of thing "to annoyance" levels.

That's why I have an email specifically for things such as registering for software and one time emails to software companies ets. I only ever look at it when I register for something else for example.

I hope this helps.

Fabler2 said:

Just unsubscribe - or have you and you still get spam?

Paul Black said:

Hello @jimbo45,


That's why I have an email specifically for things such as registering for software and one time emails to software companies ets. I only ever look at it when I register for something else for example.

I hope this helps.

The unsubscribe option sounds like a great idea if spam was the only headache created.

Whatever freeware I recently tried was constantly popping up nag screens for me to upgrade to the paid version. I already use popup blockers and yet this nagging continued. Binning the app was the solution and to never download from that site again.

If I could post the site name somewhere, others could be saved the grief.

Ha. We should sticky this thread at the very least. Better yet, create a new subforum for this topic.