Unsubscribing From Emails

[TheNewGirl 1,400]

I've had the same email address for over 25 years, ever since I got internet access, I imagine.  

I am using the "Unroll Me" subscription thing to unsubscribe from emails, and I still find that I get some that I have to manually click/link to to unsubscribe. However, it seems like more and more that I NEVER subscribed to are coming in. 

Is this what they do now? Unsubscribe from one specific address so they still send you cr@p from another? 

it has gone down considerably from hundreds every day to like 10 or 15, but it's still annoying. 

Anyone have any suggestions to just eliminate them altogether? I have another email address I use, but I don't want to switch entirely. 

[purdygood 342]

8 minutes ago, TheNewGirl said:

I've had the same email address for over 25 years, ever since I got internet access, I imagine.  

I am using the "Unroll Me" subscription thing to unsubscribe from emails, and I still find that I get some that I have to manually click/link to to unsubscribe. However, it seems like more and more that I NEVER subscribed to are coming in. 

Is this what they do now? Unsubscribe from one specific address so they still send you cr@p from another? 

it has gone down considerably from hundreds every day to like 10 or 15, but it's still annoying. 

Anyone have any suggestions to just eliminate them altogether? I have another email address I use, but I don't want to switch entirely. 

It's why you never answer calls from numbers you don't know... if a person answers, they know you exist and add you to a list then allllllll the spam calls start flooding in.

[TheNewGirl 1,400]

It's such an incredible pain in the ass. 

[Mike Honcho 5,193]

9 hours ago, TheNewGirl said:

I've had the same email address for over 25 years, ever since I got internet access, I imagine.  

I am using the "Unroll Me" subscription thing to unsubscribe from emails, and I still find that I get some that I have to manually click/link to to unsubscribe. However, it seems like more and more that I NEVER subscribed to are coming in. 

Is this what they do now? Unsubscribe from one specific address so they still send you cr@p from another? 

it has gone down considerably from hundreds every day to like 10 or 15, but it's still annoying. 

Anyone have any suggestions to just eliminate them altogether? I have another email address I use, but I don't want to switch entirely. 

I have to fess up - whenever a site I go to that asks me for an email before I can peruse the site, I give em yours, was that wrong?  

[TheNewGirl 1,400]

1 minute ago, Mike Honcho said:

I have to fess up - whenever a site I go to asks me for an email before I can peruse the site, I give em yours, was that wrong?  

[Horseman 2,417]

Gmail does a pretty good job filtering them out into "promotional", "social" and "updates" keeping your primary inbox pretty clean. And it learns from spam reporting and/or if you find something you need to respond to in the other categories it will start putting it in your primary all on its own. You can also flag as important.  

[Cdub100 3,863]

Don't unsubscribe have your email mark them as spam. When you unsubscribe they know your email is active and more valuable.

Every time you give your email out that company sells it to another company that sells it to a bunch of companies.

The best thing to do is auto send everything to spam and mark the email you do want as trusted. It will take some time but it will clean up your box.

The best part is if you're looking for an email in spam just do a search. So you don't have to spend a lot of time looking for it.

[TheNewGirl 1,400]

2 hours ago, Cdub100 said:

Don't unsubscribe have your email mark them as spam. When you unsubscribe they know your email is active and more valuable.

Every time you give your email out that company sells it to another company that sells it to a bunch of companies.

The best thing to do is auto send everything to spam and mark the email you do want as trusted. It will take some time but it will clean up your box.

The best part is if you're looking for an email in spam just do a search. So you don't have to spend a lot of time looking for it.

Perfect, thank you for this! 

[Gepetto 1,317]

On 5/15/2025 at 10:42 AM, TheNewGirl said:

I've had the same email address for over 25 years, ever since I got internet access, I imagine.  

I am using the "Unroll Me" subscription thing to unsubscribe from emails, and I still find that I get some that I have to manually click/link to to unsubscribe. However, it seems like more and more that I NEVER subscribed to are coming in. 

Is this what they do now? Unsubscribe from one specific address so they still send you cr@p from another? 

it has gone down considerably from hundreds every day to like 10 or 15, but it's still annoying. 

Anyone have any suggestions to just eliminate them altogether? I have another email address I use, but I don't want to switch entirely. 

Yes, I just unsubscribed from something I never subscribed to, then I started getting emails from other emails, mostly for lawn care services. I'm not going to unsubscribe anymore, just click SPAM or Junk.