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I have an old email addy....probably close to 30 years.....(AT&T)...and within the past two weeks I have been receiving all sorts of spam. None of the porn stuff or Viagra stuff.... Time Share eradication sites, home insurance sites, Medicare insurance stuff.... crap like that.
In two weeks, I have received more spam than I have in the past 20 years. As many online don't like AT&T, I must admit they have kept me basically spam free for decades.
Not anymore.
My question to y'all is this. Is there anyway in Mac Mail that I can toggle to only accept email from users in my address book? Some way to curtail all this crap?
As I've aged, the number of emails from friends/businesses that I have a history with have dropped off.... but the crap I'm getting now is really getting to me.
When I hit the unsubscribe button, it always seems to go through two different sites that pop up very quickly, and it always says some crap like "Sorry to see you go....this will take at least 10 days..blah, blah, blah......
I'd hate to lose this email addy..... I've had it forever. But I am willing to ditch it.... ****, at this point, I am about ready to ditch all of this... and I cannot remember visiting any type of "questionable" website in the past month...nor have I purchased something online from any other site than Amazon or a week established, 'trustworthy" website.
Please let me know what I can do.....right now, it's only about 5-10 a day..... but this has not happened to me in decades and I am tiring of it.
ONE more question..... can you recommend a browser or an add-on proggie (I use Safari....it just works for me) that totally allows you to "surf the web" totally anonymously? I hate it when I visit a site and they start up ads that either want to "We can SCAN your MAC" or "People in *****, GA are tired of this (my hometown). I do use Ad Blocker.... but after it's last update....I am about ready to ditch it..... more pop-ups and it always tell she I am exceeding my blocking and want some to reduce my "filters"...whatever the **** those are.
Sorry.... I ranted..... but I am tired of this. I do not know where or why it has started......but it is wearing me out.....and I am about this close to just unplugging.....
Cheers.... (and a liter of good whisky to anyone who can help me out of this).
Pat
In two weeks, I have received more spam than I have in the past 20 years. As many online don't like AT&T, I must admit they have kept me basically spam free for decades.
Not anymore.
My question to y'all is this. Is there anyway in Mac Mail that I can toggle to only accept email from users in my address book? Some way to curtail all this crap?
As I've aged, the number of emails from friends/businesses that I have a history with have dropped off.... but the crap I'm getting now is really getting to me.
When I hit the unsubscribe button, it always seems to go through two different sites that pop up very quickly, and it always says some crap like "Sorry to see you go....this will take at least 10 days..blah, blah, blah......
I'd hate to lose this email addy..... I've had it forever. But I am willing to ditch it.... ****, at this point, I am about ready to ditch all of this... and I cannot remember visiting any type of "questionable" website in the past month...nor have I purchased something online from any other site than Amazon or a week established, 'trustworthy" website.
Please let me know what I can do.....right now, it's only about 5-10 a day..... but this has not happened to me in decades and I am tiring of it.
ONE more question..... can you recommend a browser or an add-on proggie (I use Safari....it just works for me) that totally allows you to "surf the web" totally anonymously? I hate it when I visit a site and they start up ads that either want to "We can SCAN your MAC" or "People in *****, GA are tired of this (my hometown). I do use Ad Blocker.... but after it's last update....I am about ready to ditch it..... more pop-ups and it always tell she I am exceeding my blocking and want some to reduce my "filters"...whatever the **** those are.
Sorry.... I ranted..... but I am tired of this. I do not know where or why it has started......but it is wearing me out.....and I am about this close to just unplugging.....
Cheers.... (and a liter of good whisky to anyone who can help me out of this).
Pat
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