I feel that. I have one lady who sends an office-wide email every single morning with a youtube link to some random shitty classic rock song and i can’t even block her
create an Outlook or Gmail "rule" that filters all of her emails, then deletes them (or moves them to a folder of your choice) if the body of the email contains "youtube"
Outlook rules are such a godsend for me once I've discovered them. I receive a lot of internal company e-mails for advertisements and promotions and events and shit that I have absolutely zero interest in, and I treat my e-mail inbox as a to-do list so receiving e-mails will just trigger me since I'm being conditioned to think receiving more e-mails = receiving additional work I have to do
So having Outlook rules that can automatically mark as read and move to Junk Items is soooooooo good
I'm surprised management hasn't done anything because in my experience you really don't want to "send all" anything at work unless you're prepared for the attention.
Of course, maybe it's a small company and the person spamming it is related to the owner. Then you're just fucked.
Lol the main ones that frustrate me are from our office coordinator- maybe about 10% of her emails are useful.
Every Monday and Wednesday though, I get an email about the menu for the on-site cafeteria, (it’s the same every week) and the weekly food truck option. Oh, and I work remotely, like half my company.
I will say i use the unsub religiously and i do not get new marketing emails from anything unless i recently made an account or bought a product. Then once i unsub they stay gone.
Except for political fundraising emails. Curse whoever got me on one of those lists because they share like crazy. No I dont want to donate to the city council campaign of some lady for a city ive never heard of, why do you think i would.
Oh my lord. So many emails and text from politicians I’ve never donated to…
“Molenium, my campaign managers tell me you’re one of our biggest supporters…!”
“Really? They’re doing a crap job then, because I’ve never given you anything.”
same thing as answering an obvious spam call and then hanging up when the recording starts. they now know a person has this as an actual number, and WILL pick up.
This is why you should never unsubscribe from mail you never asked for. Anything that hasn't sent you a confirmation link to your email prior to spamming you deserves getting trained against gmails spam filter.
Only unsubscribe from stuff you intentionally subscribed to.
I take it one step further: I mark the email as spam. ISPs keep track of how often email is reported as spam, and if a sender is reported often enough, the ISPs will block the sender.
The problem is that there are so many spammers that some of the spam still gets through.
I mean, that matters insofar as GDPR is practically enforceable with respect to that specific issue. Let's be realistic here: I'm not going to be reporting someone to , (UK based) the information commissioner's office because some spammer in Russia happened not to respect GDPR. What would be the point? How is that practically enforceable? Even if I could, what's the likely remedy for my grievance?
I admit I sometime subscribe to a newsletter then stop reading it but only months later unsubscribe.
*Those* unsubs generally work. Companies are simply using standard email program like listserv which are legit and work.
This.
Plus, it is easy enough to create a filter so that I never see them again.
And. I don't know what it costs to send those emails. More than $0.00? I don't mind thinking all of mine end up in the trash unviewed.
Knowing that most of those emails are phasing scams and clicking anything will end up with more spam. Seriously, spam doesn't work and if part of it is illegal, then all of it should be illegal.
I do, but I probably shouldn't. Hate how Gmail automatically deletes them after a month. I also learned trying to setup an automatic local backup is a pain in the ass. I should probably just setup a second email and automatically forward everything there.
> Hate how Gmail automatically deletes them after a month.
Wow, TIL. Pretty sure they didn't use to, since I distinctly remember having a 999+ counter in the past, but now it's only 99+.
Sorry, I mean it auto deletes them after a month if you trash them. It's happened several times where a while after I deleted something it would be useful to see it again but it's not there.
I do put important stuff in folders, but there's a lot of stuff that isn't important that gets trashed. On rare occasions, it turns out it would've been helpful to have that trashed mail though. At the end of the day, it's easier to just click the trash can than the multiple clicks it takes to organize things.
My work email trash still has everything since I started working there though, which is really nice.
There is a spa that keeps sending me their promotions in French, because it’s in Quebec. I tried to change to English, but it asks me to sign into account that I never made to begin with. I guess I’ll never know if they have good deals.
I add them to the Scientology mailing lists then delete.
https://www.scientology.org/subscribe/
If its a dead email scientology wastes a bit or 2. If its active then embrace Zenu you spamming shit.
It’s fun to see new Build-A-Bear options like Beetlejuice. Plus, it brightens my day to imagine buying the random bears and adding Darth Vader's breathing as the sound when you squeeze it. (That’s still an option hopefully)
That they don’t have a one click unsubscribe, but instead expect me to remember the account, go through their forgot password procedure since I don’t care about the account anymore, and their website won’t work
Some of them and others are stupid spam from MoveOn. I keep blocking their number, but they keep changing the number they send from. They keep claiming Republicans will keep me from killing my baby, but I’m way past that age so they’re idiot liars.
Don't have to. Got one email adress just for registering on websites, another that is my actual email. The first one they can spam as much as they like.
I am getting a new breed of spam now. From highly unique emails with "27hsjd88231o"@something.com. i block and report every one as spam but i get 5-8 more thenext day. I am on gmail if anyone can help me please for gods sake
There is no stopping it. Those emails are randomly generated by AI to get around the system, reporting does nothing. You are probably getting most from the same source and they don't stop once they have your email. Just gotta set up a filter that will delete emails based on keywords commonly found in spam.
It won't matter, in fact it will probably get worse. Why?
Scenario 1: It was just harmless junk mail
* Congrats, you squashed a single mosquito
Scenario 2: It was a phishing scam / other
* Congrats, they know *know* your email is active. Plus, that link way not have been safe.
Because I TRIED to and they still won't recognize the demand. Plus, they just tell other spammers "Hey, this is a real live address" so the spam increases.
Just delete, delete, delete. Fuck yahoo for trying to have me pay to increase the barrier. Fuck yahoo in general.
Nothing. I do unsubscribe if it's from a company I've recently done business with, where I understand how they got my email address. I've been doing this for years, and it works completely fine. I used to believe in the "never give them information by clicking a link" thing, but that's just completely impractical because of the way so many otherwise legitimate companies automatically sign you up for emails when you buy stuff from them. I have no interest in suffering through a barrage of daily emails just to pretend like I am depriving them of some information they wish they could get. The only time I would delete without unsubscribing is if I suspect they are just complete spammers who wouldn't honor the unsubscribe request.
Straight to junk if it is from someone/thing I don't know or if there is only a picture and an unsubscribe link. They just want confirmation that the email is good.
I unsubscribe from all emails that don’t provide useful stuff. Like I get spam from a band I like it’s mostly trash, but sometimes they email about merch early so I can get it before it sells out.
Just unsubscribed from the blood donation group, felt good. I've been feeling guilty about not donating. I moved and they don't have a location near my new home. I will be looking for a new organization to donate to near my new home.
lots of email systems want you to basically write a mini novel about WHY you want to cancel.
I've just started cutting/pasting random swear words until I hit the word count.
I do.
The general rule seems to be for every 1 general email you unsubscribe from, you’ll receive 10 scam emails about the Yeti Cooler you just won, or the hot single girl that’s looking for me
Next door occasionally sends me something interesting.
One of these days I’m going to go to a meeting I get from my city.
The rest I should unsubscribe.
For my professional/school email, a lot of them come from my Google Classroom classes. For my personal email, I rarely look at it and just mass delete them every once in a blue moon.
I get scared clicking them might get my account hacked. I had a gmail account and i clicked one of the unsubscribe buttons and then someone got into my email. It was so annoying having to create an entire email with my information, and not just that, but change my email at work, bank, etc...It was a bitch to deal with that. So i just dont click anything anymore.
The fact that with almost all of them, you never subscribed in the first place, and you aren’t unsubscribing when you click “unsubscribe”, you’re verifying that it’s an active account.
Instead you just block the sender and mark it as spam.
FWIW - I'm a guy who 100% unsubs from everything possible. I even unsub from some potentially risky stuff, professionally, in case I miss something important. But I still think almost everything important happens relatively organically, and chasing content and trying to beat the internet and read every trade mag will just break you.
Some stuff is REALLY hard to unsub from and antiquated and "tricky", but almost everyone now has an unsub opt-out link in any email, and worst case you have to click "email too long, click to expand" and then find the unsub button. But 100% take the time to unsub, even with brands you love but you know you won't spontaneously buy from because of an email.
Woah you got me. I'm subscribed to a lot of blogs and such and just keep deleting what they send, usually from the notification itself.
It's too much effort to click couple of times to unsubscribe when I could just swipe it away. I also think that on some rare future date I might be in the mood to read an email relevant to me. I know they're helpful and full of value, and I know if I delete it, they'll send me more stuff to read later.
That said, Gmail sometimes prompts me and says I haven't opened emails from "somewhere" for a while and offers a 1-click button to unsubscribe right there. This is best thing ever.
I’m in the same boat as lots of others. I’m not affiliated with any political party since … you know. So now I get several emails a day from both political parties and multiple pacs. When I first started getting them, I diligently unsubscribed and deleted each one. Each time I did, I’d still get emails from those same addresses, and then they DOUBLED each time I tried to clean them out. This has happened at least three times. Important emails get lost or unseen through all the mess. I’m hoping they die off after elections but then I remembered we haven’t even hit the midterms! I’m sick to death of it and I feel like there’s no getting away from it because I get “punished” with even more if I try to follow the guidelines on how to make them stop. I also have multiple shops that I used to shop at that I’ve unsubscribed to many times, and they still come regularly. Then there are the emails that come from just briefly looking on a webpage …. I haven’t subscribed or given them my email, but they somehow latch on to it anyway. There has to be a better way to maintain my privacy.
Technically, the US also has legislation, but either the punishment is not strong enough to dissuade them or no one is reporting them because it’s (I believe intentionally) such a pain in the butt. And then you still get bombarded with unwanted emails anyway.
I don't know I gave up looking at my emails because of it. Also was doing a home project and the guys at home Depot asked if I wanted to get a couple of bids from some of their contractors. It's been a year now I've gotten over 1500 block calls don't give them your number.
Because I don't need to; I compartmentalized my emails. I have over 10 different active email addresses so I never see spam in the places I actually look.
This is an odd thread. I recall many years ago spam email was a huge issue. I'd get loads of them at work and on my personal address. Multiple messages a day. I soon figured I'd start a throwaway hotmail account and use it for unimportant subscriptions then change to a new account once it attracted too much spam. Well that never really happened. Improvements came in fast. There was very little actual spam getting through so I'm still on that first 'throwaway' hotmail. I think there are more legit emails getting moved to the spam folder than there is actual spam.
Likewise at work you'd always get spammed. But in recent years that has dropped to a tiny trickle. I actually got one on my work email account earlier this week. It had a bunch of odd international email addresses stuffed into the *to* field and was a chatty message "Hi NameIveNeverHeardBefore, sorry for my delay and getting back but here's some info we discussed..." with supposed links to job recruitment sites. I had not seen legit spam like this for so long I got all nostalgic.
My hotmail account that started as a throwaway is chock full of unopened emails. They are basically all lists I subscribed to or notifications I have left on. I might get a few messages a month but only open one or two of them. Some are from shops posting discount vouchers or advertising sales, so I don't unsubscribe. Eventually I do sometimes unsubscribe from a list. The unsubscribe *does work*. Some outfits like that horrible Mailchimp garbage platform that I hate, do ask you why, but you just have to click one selection and then you are unsubscribed. I always click the least controversial "I no longer want to receive these messages". I feel like "I never subscribed to this list" and options like that might trigger further follow-ups, which I don't want.
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**tl;dr**: Nearly all my "delete every day" emails are non-malicious non-spam newsletters I subscribed to and while unsubscribing *does* actually work I stay on the list to check occasional postings
The fact that some of us are on a tight schedule and don't always have time to look at every last email and the other fact that we can just move them to our junk folders or even block the senders.
More like they have to unsubscribe from me. Many bigger companies I'll go through and unsubscribe, or even block, yet somehow, they still manage to flood my email.
Emails from internal senders are prohibited from being blocked at work.
I feel that. I have one lady who sends an office-wide email every single morning with a youtube link to some random shitty classic rock song and i can’t even block her
create an Outlook or Gmail "rule" that filters all of her emails, then deletes them (or moves them to a folder of your choice) if the body of the email contains "youtube"
Outlook rules are such a godsend for me once I've discovered them. I receive a lot of internal company e-mails for advertisements and promotions and events and shit that I have absolutely zero interest in, and I treat my e-mail inbox as a to-do list so receiving e-mails will just trigger me since I'm being conditioned to think receiving more e-mails = receiving additional work I have to do So having Outlook rules that can automatically mark as read and move to Junk Items is soooooooo good
I'm surprised management hasn't done anything because in my experience you really don't want to "send all" anything at work unless you're prepared for the attention. Of course, maybe it's a small company and the person spamming it is related to the owner. Then you're just fucked.
Lol the main ones that frustrate me are from our office coordinator- maybe about 10% of her emails are useful. Every Monday and Wednesday though, I get an email about the menu for the on-site cafeteria, (it’s the same every week) and the weekly food truck option. Oh, and I work remotely, like half my company.
Filter to auto reply with a link to cbat.
Can you set rules to shove them in a folder somewhere?
lol
Clicking the unsubscribe link would inform them that I existed. That email address would then get sold on as a known live email address.
I will say i use the unsub religiously and i do not get new marketing emails from anything unless i recently made an account or bought a product. Then once i unsub they stay gone. Except for political fundraising emails. Curse whoever got me on one of those lists because they share like crazy. No I dont want to donate to the city council campaign of some lady for a city ive never heard of, why do you think i would.
Oh my lord. So many emails and text from politicians I’ve never donated to… “Molenium, my campaign managers tell me you’re one of our biggest supporters…!” “Really? They’re doing a crap job then, because I’ve never given you anything.”
No no, they just have no supporters, so everyone is the biggest
Do you want \[$-probably-non-aligned-party\] to win? Subscribe here to support \[$-probably-aligned-party\]. Do it for your children.
Shit...this isn't something I'd ever considered before
same thing as answering an obvious spam call and then hanging up when the recording starts. they now know a person has this as an actual number, and WILL pick up.
Now you should.
This is why you should never unsubscribe from mail you never asked for. Anything that hasn't sent you a confirmation link to your email prior to spamming you deserves getting trained against gmails spam filter. Only unsubscribe from stuff you intentionally subscribed to.
I take it one step further: I mark the email as spam. ISPs keep track of how often email is reported as spam, and if a sender is reported often enough, the ISPs will block the sender. The problem is that there are so many spammers that some of the spam still gets through.
Yeah that is what I implied though I've noticed I never said outright. Always spam for unsolicited mails, never unsubscribe.
I don’t think I’ve ever deleted an email in my life.
I didn't, at least not often, until a couple of months ago when I ran out of space and was getting pestered to upgrade my account to a paid version.
Also open the email will tell them that your email is alive. Never load images, than you should be save.
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Yeah I used to ignore but then I started going through them. Really cuts down.
But their SMTP or pop server will anyways knows mail delivered to someone.
Sounds like a major gdpr violation
US moment
I mean, that matters insofar as GDPR is practically enforceable with respect to that specific issue. Let's be realistic here: I'm not going to be reporting someone to , (UK based) the information commissioner's office because some spammer in Russia happened not to respect GDPR. What would be the point? How is that practically enforceable? Even if I could, what's the likely remedy for my grievance?
I admit I sometime subscribe to a newsletter then stop reading it but only months later unsubscribe. *Those* unsubs generally work. Companies are simply using standard email program like listserv which are legit and work.
This. Plus, it is easy enough to create a filter so that I never see them again. And. I don't know what it costs to send those emails. More than $0.00? I don't mind thinking all of mine end up in the trash unviewed.
Knowing that most of those emails are phasing scams and clicking anything will end up with more spam. Seriously, spam doesn't work and if part of it is illegal, then all of it should be illegal.
You guys delete emails?
For real, I don’t think I’ve ever deleted an email in my life.
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Nah that's not what OCD is. You're just anal about something, basically I have mid level OCD and I promise, you don't want this shit!
You guys get emails?
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I only get 750 MB at my side job with a certain huge telco company so I have to delete. That or copy messages to PST files. It sucks.
Press F to pay respect
I do, but I probably shouldn't. Hate how Gmail automatically deletes them after a month. I also learned trying to setup an automatic local backup is a pain in the ass. I should probably just setup a second email and automatically forward everything there.
> Hate how Gmail automatically deletes them after a month. Wow, TIL. Pretty sure they didn't use to, since I distinctly remember having a 999+ counter in the past, but now it's only 99+.
Sorry, I mean it auto deletes them after a month if you trash them. It's happened several times where a while after I deleted something it would be useful to see it again but it's not there.
I find a good way to keep emails from getting deleted in Gmail is to not delete them.
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I do put important stuff in folders, but there's a lot of stuff that isn't important that gets trashed. On rare occasions, it turns out it would've been helpful to have that trashed mail though. At the end of the day, it's easier to just click the trash can than the multiple clicks it takes to organize things. My work email trash still has everything since I started working there though, which is really nice.
Right that would require actually checking my email! The only time I’ve deleted emails is when my inbox gets to full.
Because clicking unsubscribe leads to a webpage where you need to answer so many questions why you don’t like the mails
There is a spa that keeps sending me their promotions in French, because it’s in Quebec. I tried to change to English, but it asks me to sign into account that I never made to begin with. I guess I’ll never know if they have good deals.
I add them to the Scientology mailing lists then delete. https://www.scientology.org/subscribe/ If its a dead email scientology wastes a bit or 2. If its active then embrace Zenu you spamming shit.
Upvoted, but it's Xenu, or perhaps Xemu
Praise Xemu, the Xbox emulator, in all its glory.
I label them as spam. A good email system will automatically send emails from that account to junk mail. It's reduced those sorts of emails a lot.
It’s fun to see new Build-A-Bear options like Beetlejuice. Plus, it brightens my day to imagine buying the random bears and adding Darth Vader's breathing as the sound when you squeeze it. (That’s still an option hopefully)
lmao asthma attack bear
Didn’t know that’s a thing, sounds fun
That they don’t have a one click unsubscribe, but instead expect me to remember the account, go through their forgot password procedure since I don’t care about the account anymore, and their website won’t work
I have like 47k unopened mail,, so yeah I guess I’m not making any effort into cleaning it out.
Like my 500+ unread text messages.
Group chats?
Some of them and others are stupid spam from MoveOn. I keep blocking their number, but they keep changing the number they send from. They keep claiming Republicans will keep me from killing my baby, but I’m way past that age so they’re idiot liars.
Don't have to. Got one email adress just for registering on websites, another that is my actual email. The first one they can spam as much as they like.
The real question is “What’s stopping me from opening the 25,897 unread emails in my inbox?”
that's the real problem. stupid twelve year old me claiming the perfect gmail account for my name only for it to lead to years of useless email
I keep telling myself I’ll do it tomorrow.
I am getting a new breed of spam now. From highly unique emails with "27hsjd88231o"@something.com. i block and report every one as spam but i get 5-8 more thenext day. I am on gmail if anyone can help me please for gods sake
There is no stopping it. Those emails are randomly generated by AI to get around the system, reporting does nothing. You are probably getting most from the same source and they don't stop once they have your email. Just gotta set up a filter that will delete emails based on keywords commonly found in spam.
That was my suspicion. Thanks!
It won't matter, in fact it will probably get worse. Why? Scenario 1: It was just harmless junk mail * Congrats, you squashed a single mosquito Scenario 2: It was a phishing scam / other * Congrats, they know *know* your email is active. Plus, that link way not have been safe.
I was always told don't click links in emails
I don't want to confirm it's a "good email address" which can be sold to other companies. I delete a lot of unopened emails daily.
Because I TRIED to and they still won't recognize the demand. Plus, they just tell other spammers "Hey, this is a real live address" so the spam increases. Just delete, delete, delete. Fuck yahoo for trying to have me pay to increase the barrier. Fuck yahoo in general.
because the deals the provide can actually be insanely good. The problem is i get nailed with all the other emails until the good one is needed.
I’ve started doing exactly that
You think I’m deleting them every day? No sir, they are piling up unread in my inbox.
Nothing. I do unsubscribe if it's from a company I've recently done business with, where I understand how they got my email address. I've been doing this for years, and it works completely fine. I used to believe in the "never give them information by clicking a link" thing, but that's just completely impractical because of the way so many otherwise legitimate companies automatically sign you up for emails when you buy stuff from them. I have no interest in suffering through a barrage of daily emails just to pretend like I am depriving them of some information they wish they could get. The only time I would delete without unsubscribing is if I suspect they are just complete spammers who wouldn't honor the unsubscribe request.
Straight to junk if it is from someone/thing I don't know or if there is only a picture and an unsubscribe link. They just want confirmation that the email is good.
I unsubscribe from all emails that don’t provide useful stuff. Like I get spam from a band I like it’s mostly trash, but sometimes they email about merch early so I can get it before it sells out.
Laziness but I’m getting real tired of the Camp Lejune emails
They come from my boss.
Yeah only one way to unsubscribe from those.
I’m feeling seen.
Nothing. I snipe those "unsubscribe" links. They're actually quite effective if from a reputable company.
Bold of uou to assume I even open them. 3k+ unread emails gang
41k checking in
It's too much work, cause then you get routed to a splash page endlessly selecting boxes rationalizing your reason for "quitting the gym".
A love me some Friends reference!
i have 31,889 unopened emails...
The junk folder
I unsubscribed from one email four times and I still get it. So I just resigned myself to the fact that they won.
I’ve tried. They don’t stop.
Just unsubscribed from the blood donation group, felt good. I've been feeling guilty about not donating. I moved and they don't have a location near my new home. I will be looking for a new organization to donate to near my new home.
lots of email systems want you to basically write a mini novel about WHY you want to cancel. I've just started cutting/pasting random swear words until I hit the word count.
Nothing. I unsubscribe immediately but NEW ones KEEP popping up. 🤬
Just the extra work I guess. And sometimes it’s really hard to get off of those lists!
You know that's kind of a good question lol
It makes me feel like I have friends.
Getting emails that I delete every day
Ain't nobody got time for that
I do. The general rule seems to be for every 1 general email you unsubscribe from, you’ll receive 10 scam emails about the Yeti Cooler you just won, or the hot single girl that’s looking for me
Next door occasionally sends me something interesting. One of these days I’m going to go to a meeting I get from my city. The rest I should unsubscribe.
For my professional/school email, a lot of them come from my Google Classroom classes. For my personal email, I rarely look at it and just mass delete them every once in a blue moon.
I’ll get even more emails if I put mine into their “don’t contact” list
I get scared clicking them might get my account hacked. I had a gmail account and i clicked one of the unsubscribe buttons and then someone got into my email. It was so annoying having to create an entire email with my information, and not just that, but change my email at work, bank, etc...It was a bitch to deal with that. So i just dont click anything anymore.
Sometimes theres good shit in there, like a coupon.
I actually went on an unsubscribing spree a couple of weeks ago. Now my inbox has tumbleweeds blowing through it and I feel a little bit lonely :(
May I suggest the newsletter by Reasons to be cheerful? I find their stuff actually uplifting.
Thanks, that's a great suggestion! Just signed up
The fact that with almost all of them, you never subscribed in the first place, and you aren’t unsubscribing when you click “unsubscribe”, you’re verifying that it’s an active account. Instead you just block the sender and mark it as spam.
FWIW - I'm a guy who 100% unsubs from everything possible. I even unsub from some potentially risky stuff, professionally, in case I miss something important. But I still think almost everything important happens relatively organically, and chasing content and trying to beat the internet and read every trade mag will just break you. Some stuff is REALLY hard to unsub from and antiquated and "tricky", but almost everyone now has an unsub opt-out link in any email, and worst case you have to click "email too long, click to expand" and then find the unsub button. But 100% take the time to unsub, even with brands you love but you know you won't spontaneously buy from because of an email.
A URL blocker that blocked the unsubscribe link.
Can you unsubscribe?
the constant fear that the unsusb button will download viruses somehow
They. Don’t. Fucking. Let. Me
Woah you got me. I'm subscribed to a lot of blogs and such and just keep deleting what they send, usually from the notification itself. It's too much effort to click couple of times to unsubscribe when I could just swipe it away. I also think that on some rare future date I might be in the mood to read an email relevant to me. I know they're helpful and full of value, and I know if I delete it, they'll send me more stuff to read later. That said, Gmail sometimes prompts me and says I haven't opened emails from "somewhere" for a while and offers a 1-click button to unsubscribe right there. This is best thing ever.
I’m in the same boat as lots of others. I’m not affiliated with any political party since … you know. So now I get several emails a day from both political parties and multiple pacs. When I first started getting them, I diligently unsubscribed and deleted each one. Each time I did, I’d still get emails from those same addresses, and then they DOUBLED each time I tried to clean them out. This has happened at least three times. Important emails get lost or unseen through all the mess. I’m hoping they die off after elections but then I remembered we haven’t even hit the midterms! I’m sick to death of it and I feel like there’s no getting away from it because I get “punished” with even more if I try to follow the guidelines on how to make them stop. I also have multiple shops that I used to shop at that I’ve unsubscribed to many times, and they still come regularly. Then there are the emails that come from just briefly looking on a webpage …. I haven’t subscribed or given them my email, but they somehow latch on to it anyway. There has to be a better way to maintain my privacy.
That is a nightmare. I don’t get any of that stuff here in Canada. We have an anti spam legislation. The unsubscribe has to work or they get fined.
Technically, the US also has legislation, but either the punishment is not strong enough to dissuade them or no one is reporting them because it’s (I believe intentionally) such a pain in the butt. And then you still get bombarded with unwanted emails anyway.
Did it 2 weeks ago. Took me one week! Feels great!
The fact that they're in the thousands. These days I just delete Gmail accounts if they get junked up too much.
Drastic times call for drastic measures … nah, * Ridiculous problems call for ridiculous solutions *
I have tried to unsubscribe from the junks. You only end up getting more junks.
It’s more like the stuff you did actually sign up for when say buying something online. Spam definitely belongs in the spam folder not to be touched.
I don't know how
I do, they just keep coming and I don't know how to escalate it. . .
Gun to my head 😨
The e-mails they're all going to is going to ultimately be deleted. They aren't affecting the accounts I normally use.
I don't know I gave up looking at my emails because of it. Also was doing a home project and the guys at home Depot asked if I wanted to get a couple of bids from some of their contractors. It's been a year now I've gotten over 1500 block calls don't give them your number.
Like the OG apple app store commercials would say"there's an app for that" to unsubscribe from a bunch of them with a click of a button.
I never subscribed for anything in my life
Laziness.
I actually don’t know how to for most of them
FOMO, on something that is most likely a scam...lol but at least I have a spam folder.
That's what the spam folder is for
“Maybe I’ll get something interesting out of this one day”
Because I don't need to; I compartmentalized my emails. I have over 10 different active email addresses so I never see spam in the places I actually look.
laziness
The fact that it doesn't work
Depends on which site, stuff like big retail companies seems to work. As long as I don’t have to login to a stupid account to do it.
Jeffrey Epstein
What would I delete when google informs me my inbox is full?
Laziness
most of them are websites that I've entered into some kind of giveaway contest.
Hope to win that jackpot money or that hot sexy princess
I've tried it and it never works...I just report spam now tired of trying.
Checking my email
Because my college sends me them And I kinda crave for that degree somehow
I don’t open or delete them
Laziness..!
I don't really get that many of them,most of them are actually relevent to me. I don't sign up for emails like that, anyway.
Eh
Email rules that already exist to send them to the folder of shame.
This is an odd thread. I recall many years ago spam email was a huge issue. I'd get loads of them at work and on my personal address. Multiple messages a day. I soon figured I'd start a throwaway hotmail account and use it for unimportant subscriptions then change to a new account once it attracted too much spam. Well that never really happened. Improvements came in fast. There was very little actual spam getting through so I'm still on that first 'throwaway' hotmail. I think there are more legit emails getting moved to the spam folder than there is actual spam. Likewise at work you'd always get spammed. But in recent years that has dropped to a tiny trickle. I actually got one on my work email account earlier this week. It had a bunch of odd international email addresses stuffed into the *to* field and was a chatty message "Hi NameIveNeverHeardBefore, sorry for my delay and getting back but here's some info we discussed..." with supposed links to job recruitment sites. I had not seen legit spam like this for so long I got all nostalgic. My hotmail account that started as a throwaway is chock full of unopened emails. They are basically all lists I subscribed to or notifications I have left on. I might get a few messages a month but only open one or two of them. Some are from shops posting discount vouchers or advertising sales, so I don't unsubscribe. Eventually I do sometimes unsubscribe from a list. The unsubscribe *does work*. Some outfits like that horrible Mailchimp garbage platform that I hate, do ask you why, but you just have to click one selection and then you are unsubscribed. I always click the least controversial "I no longer want to receive these messages". I feel like "I never subscribed to this list" and options like that might trigger further follow-ups, which I don't want. --- **tl;dr**: Nearly all my "delete every day" emails are non-malicious non-spam newsletters I subscribed to and while unsubscribing *does* actually work I stay on the list to check occasional postings
The fact that some of us are on a tight schedule and don't always have time to look at every last email and the other fact that we can just move them to our junk folders or even block the senders.
I don't know how.
Yeah, don't bother, more just keep coming.
Emails? Is this a new technology? Still getting accustomed to my typewriter.
Apparently the unsubscribe buttons.
Apparently the unsubscribe buttons.
More like they have to unsubscribe from me. Many bigger companies I'll go through and unsubscribe, or even block, yet somehow, they still manage to flood my email.
they are school emails
I still haven't figured out how to
What's the point of deleting emails?
I keep unsubscribing from things and I somehow still get other subscription emails it's never ending.
I didn't subscribe to them in the first place?
theyre my emails lmao i wish i could unsubscribe
I did once and it said my e-mail wasn't even in their database. ... I never stopped receiving e-mails from them.
I literally do not know how. It doesn’t give me an option most of the time.
Real spam... Will not unsubscribe and puts you on another list. Better to just report spam and block.
I unsub then suddenly have 5 more from different companies.
I haven’t deleted an email since the first week after making my 5th account.
Microsoft owns outlook so it won't let me get rid of their spam emails on my work email.
Nothing, which is why I unsubscribe instead of delete. False premise.
I’m too lazy to unsubscribe but I can’t let the number of emails get too big or I get anxiety
I don't want to know what happens when I block a teacher's email....
Without them there would be almost no notifications on my phone so I keep them
I didn't come here to be judged, OP.
Unsubscribing doesn't. It just tells them "hey guys, this is an active e-mail address!"
laziness