OneDocument Translation Workspace - too many e-mails Thread poster: Jana Teteris
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Jana Teteris 
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:02
Latvian to English
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I haven't kept up with all the changes and enhancements to proz.com as I'm no longer a frequent visitor to the site.
Despite having set up my preferences not to receive job-related e-mails I'm now being bombarded with numerous e-mails for bottom end MT post-editing jobs via some sort of new feature called OneDocument Translation Workspace.
Firstly, I didn't opt in for this, so it's going against all GDPR rules. And secondly, it's simply annoying. I've tried to search on the ... See more I haven't kept up with all the changes and enhancements to proz.com as I'm no longer a frequent visitor to the site.
Despite having set up my preferences not to receive job-related e-mails I'm now being bombarded with numerous e-mails for bottom end MT post-editing jobs via some sort of new feature called OneDocument Translation Workspace.
Firstly, I didn't opt in for this, so it's going against all GDPR rules. And secondly, it's simply annoying. I've tried to search on the site where I can opt out of this, but there's nothing.
Can anyone advise? ▲ Collapse
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Robert Forstag
United States
Local time: 00:02
Spanish to English
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| Annoying and useless... | Mar 5, 2020 |
...except for the "lucky winner" who responds within a minute or two to these offers. Every time I've clicked on the link provided in the e-mail, I received a response that the job was no longer available.
[Edited at 2020-03-05 13:02 GMT]
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I too would like to know how to opt out of these annoying emails please.
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Jean Lachaud
United States
Local time: 00:02
English to French
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One may wonder whether GDPR is applicable to post-Brexit UK...
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Jessica Noyes
United States
Local time: 00:02
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Spanish to English
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Although I have never accepted one of these jobs, I actually wouldn't mind taking a look at one if I could get to it on time. However, they seem to pop up when I clearly post my status as "unavailable." Wouldn't it be nice if their algorithm or whatever showed results only for translators who have the green "available" light on their profile?
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Jana Teteris
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:02
Latvian to English
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Thanks everyone for the helpful replies. Looks like this useless feature has been around for a while. I just hadn't come across it, until the e-mail bombardment started last night.
p.s. EU GDPR rules are still in force until the end of the year.
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I had a couple of these a while ago, relating to "jobs" with hopeless proposed fees and deadlines, and I complained to ProZ staff about them. I haven't had any more mails, though I suppose it could just be that my language pair isn't popular enough for them.
I suggest that anybody else who doesn't like receiving these mails should complain to ProZ staff.
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I suspect we have actually opted in through ProZ T&Cs...
I asked them to leave me alone several times but I don’t know if they now have because I also blocked their emails...
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I don't think this is big issue. You can simply report to block them.
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