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Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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Post by ryanmjacobs »

joosters wrote: post #39

Nice idea! The 'privacy' section is a bit too vague. Sure, you aren't selling my data, but what are you doing with it? What happens to the emails you receive - are they archived or stored, or do you delete them? How secure are they kept? These messages could have lots of private data in them, even simple things like usernames might be of value to hackers.

That's a fair point. I added an update to the Privacy section. I really don't care about these spam emails, plus Gsuite only offers 30 GB for the plan I purchased. After processing, the emails will be sent to Gmail's trash, which is cleared every 30 days.

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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Post by fabienpenso »

jen729w wrote: post #12
camhart wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or just click the unsubscribe button myself? Is forwarding the email really any easier than unsubscribing yourself?

A fine option, which I also endorse. In all seriousness, here’s what I do to combat Insidious Mailing List Spam. It’s kinda simple. 1. Get one email address for friends and family. Never ever post it online. Never use it for any shopping or anything. This is your email address . There is no mailbox anxiety because you get one email a day to this address and it’s from your dad and you love him. 2. Get another one for…

Just filter all those mail into a unsubscribe folder instead of marking them as read.

Also filter all emails with unsubscribe in their body to that folder. Works like a charm.

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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Post by manigandham »

vzaliva wrote: post #30

I do not want to sound negative but my honest opinion is that you need to work on your price model. Very few people will be ready to pay $5-10 per month(!) for such small convenience. Assuming that you do mostly automatic processing your actual costs should be really small (per user). You can probably offer this service for $5/year and still make profit, while attracting more users.

The site says emails are manually processed and a comment here by the poster [1] states that they pay $15/hr for someone to do it.

I agree that the value isn't there for the pricing, especially as a monthly subscription. $5/month is too expensive considering most people won't even pay that to read content they actually want. All major email providers have spam/unsubscribe buttons already and I don't want to risk forwarding emails to someone else to reveal even more data.

If this was more like a global unsubscribe service that removed me from all major email lists somehow, or helped with other privacy/data cleanup then it might be worth a one-time fee.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25013979

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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Post by huhtenberg »

arkitaip wrote: post #13

I've gotten into the habit of spam labeling these emails, hoping they contribute to the great spam filter in the sky. This works much better than unsubscribing because most of these emails aren't even intended for me but the jerks who keep using my email address to sign up for services and aren't required to verify the email address they provided. One thing I've realized having moved away from Gmail to fastmail, is t…

Not sure I follow.

Are you saying that a substantial number of people is routinely using your _fastmail_ address with services that send _marketing_ emails to _unverified_ email addresses?

I find this highly implausible.

Edit -

Why the downvotes? If I read the OP correctly, they have such a common address that random people mindlessly type it into various subscription nags. Can you think of a such @fastmail address?

If it's not that common, then their address was just leaked and ended up on the spammers list, so tagging as spam is a proper thing to do. However it sounds like the OP also spam-tags bulk emails they don't like even if they are subscribed to those, which is as ass thing to do. It hinders delivery to others, nicks the sender reputation, etc.

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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Post by Kiro »

ryanmjacobs wrote: post #25
Kiro wrote: post #22

What YC batch? Or is this a Show HN rather than a Launch HN?

Whoops. I didn't realize that "Launch HN" indicated it originated from YC. I'd change it, but I don't think I can.

I don't think it breaks any rules but one benefit of prefixing it with Show HN is that it shows up on https://news.ycombinator.com/show (Launch HN does as well but only the "official" ones). Not that it matters considering your post is almost #1 on the front page even without that extra exposure.

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

#47

Post by tyingq »

Your pricing model does seem to need some work. Credits would likely be a better match than a monthly service. It would better fit the nature of the problem. But, kudos on offering a manual service in a space where automation can easily fail.

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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Post by rkagerer »

MattGaiser wrote: post #5

What kind of person needs 60 unsubscribes per month? That seems like an insane number of newsletters/marketing lists to be subscribed to. Even if they did need it, they wouldn't need it for more than 2-3 months.

I've used the same email address since the 90's and could surely surpass that if I turned off my spam filter.

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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Post by rkagerer »

m4lvin wrote: post #16

"We will manually unsubscribe you" So, you promise to click on any link called "unsubscribe" in any email we forward to you? Somehow this sounds dangerous. I do hope you are doing that in a proper sandbox or virtual machine.

How about those fake "unsubscribe" links that actually record your email address in a database as a valid hit?

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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Post by threatofrain »

arkitaip wrote: post #13

I've gotten into the habit of spam labeling these emails, hoping they contribute to the great spam filter in the sky. This works much better than unsubscribing because most of these emails aren't even intended for me but the jerks who keep using my email address to sign up for services and aren't required to verify the email address they provided. One thing I've realized having moved away from Gmail to fastmail, is t…

Also a longtime Fastmail user, and I do tend to notice Way More spam and more serious phishing emails.
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