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[–] Foexle@feddit.de 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't even get that spam, like there is no point in sending just emojies or ?

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 28 points 6 months ago (3 children)

A ZWNJ is a zero-width non-joiner, probably abused to format / align their email correctly but not rendered in the notification.

[–] Exec@pawb.social 14 points 6 months ago

I thought non-breaking space (&nbsp) was translated to Polish or something

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

God we learned "tricks" like this in my HTML class. Last year. Just in case you're wondering why shit like this is still around.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

"tricks" as in "cheating that will bite you in the ass later".

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

More likely it’s an attempt to get the preview text a lot of mailboxes show to not show extra content.

Meaning they want you to see “terms and conditions updates lulumon” and not “terms and conditions updates lulumon hello there isVeryLoud, we have upd…”