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Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing
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Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing
#12Cool idea I suppose, but for $5/month wouldn’t I just not sign up to those mailing lists in the first place? Or get another email address? This doesn’t feel very sustainable.
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 mailing lists. Crucially, using a rule, mark every new mail as read on receipt. There is no mailbox anxiety because the “read me” or “keep me unread until I’ve actioned” or whatever is gone. Totally gone. Need to do a thing with an email? Figure out a way outside your inbox to track that.
I started this accidentally about a year ago and it’s a revelation.
Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing
#13I'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 the importance of owning your spam data as I had to train Fastmail's spam system.
Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing
#14What 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 get a lot of junk mail haha. It's like any time I purchase something from Walmart or Newegg, they subscribe me to like 5 mailing lists.
I wanted something where I could bulk select items in my inbox and have someone else deal with it.
I just made a product I wanted :) But yeah, it's not sustainable in the sense of money -- but in my eyes, if my product becomes less necessary over time, then I did my job right
Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing
#15Clicking unsubscribe myself vs. forwarding an email and potentially exposing private data —> Is that the argument?
One thing I would be worried about is that a lot of emails have auto login urls if you click a button. For example, if you get an email from Quora, you are auto logged into Quora from that link.
Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing
#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.
Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing
#17I'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…
That gets you blacklisted on email service providers so you risk missing order confirmations etc.
Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing
#18Just a thought: what about focusing on the really annoying emails? So that when someone who is not very techie can't figure out why they keep getting the damn emails, they forward them to you? Rather than as a general purpose service.
Also, implement as a gmail plugin if that's possible.
Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing
#19Emails in the US have an unsubscribe link, and failing that web email clients have "report spam" links. Don't understand the need for this service.
The unsubscribe link often has dark patterns to try and defeat your attempt so I can see some getting frustrated and giving up. So maybe for the less technically inclined?
Yeah, that's the main problem.
They've made it a lot easier, because now you're not required to sign-in -- which is why this product works.
I just pay my high-school sister $15/hour to manually dig through the links and check unsubscribe for each mailing list for you.
As a tech worker, throwing $5/month to saving me frustration is worth it. Sure, you're exposing your email -- but I'm also exposing my email on my personal website, and literally any company I register on.
Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing
#20"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.
Yeah it's done on a virtual machine that logs screenshots once a second for auditing purposes.