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Comment by robin_reala | Hacker News Reader

I don’t mind newsletters, but I still prefer the anonymity of RSS. For every dedicated author as per the linked article there are ten company backed newsletters that will take your email address and use it as an advertising target on a specific subject. Illegal, but of course it happens.

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I've tried to split the difference. All my newslettering is also published on my site, with attendant RSS feeds. The thing about the newsletter I love, as I explained in the essay, is the quality of conversation is so much higher than anything I've found outside of the inbox. (Hacker News excepted; this place deserves its own love letter.)

Obviously having both is the best of both worlds! (by the way, thanks for the content, I’ve subscribed. Walking the mountain paths of Japan is an underrated pastime for sure, had an amazing time at Yoshino and Hakuba last time I was there)

Yoshino is a gem. I'm running a retreat there later this year with Jan Chipchase.

I get so much of this. I actually have a couple of newsletters that I enjoy, but every tech product I sign up for has a newsletter attached that I haven't asked for.

I found https://leavemealone.xyz just before the end of last year and unsubscribed from 238 newsletters. It's made by a couple of IndieMakers.

My inbox is much cleaner now, some might say even boring. Though are they are starting to creep back in as I go about my internet life.

Thanks for the leavemealone link!

It wouldn't be such a hard thing to do, to sign up for newsletters and create dedicated RSS feeds of the incoming emails. Allowing access to people who prefer being more private in their consumption is probably a nice thing to do, but isn't it 100% illegal?

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