Hello,
I used years ago a service called “leave me alone”. To mass unsubscribe to all the newsletter i was in. I didn’t know if that was safe back then. Now I am way more aware at all of that.
Is there, a service like this one. Free or paid, that mass unsubscribe, and safe. I know you can do it manually, but often when i do it. It don’t really work, and i have to do it very often. Which is very very annoying.
So if anybody have an idea about that i would love to hear it.
Here is what I reccommend.
create a new email address. This will be a private email address that you do not give out.
signup for email aliasing via a reccommended provider.
have your current emails forward to an alias then, when you get spam, block the email via your alias.
going forward use aliases to sign up for stuff.
If we are to go by privacy policies by the companies, the ones to consider:
None of them are open source, but they claim because they provide a paid tier, that’s how they are sustainable without having to sell data. With Trimbox, anyone can verify their claims by studying network packets, but I didn’t try hard looking for people backing up their claims.
For truly open-source option, gmail unsubscriber is the only option, but it requires technical know-how to run and only works with Gmail.
You’re right to be cautious of these types of companies. Definitely avoid “free” ones like unroll.me and cleanfox. They make money by analyzing your shopping patterns from your emails.
How much you trust those companies is up to you. If your threat model allows some leeway, then maybe subscribe to one of the ones I mentioned earlier, use them for a month, clean up your inbox, then move to the suggested email-aliasing model for long-term spam deterrence.
You’re not wrong and is what I personally do myself, but it’s like telling someone to get a PO box and route spam to that. While true, it doesn’t help them clean up the mess they’re currently in.
I disagree with this sentiment.
1 - by moving to a new private email, that email address is not connected to any spam at all.
2 - blocking via your alias (such as the SimpleLogin dashboard for example) any spam from the incoming old email through the alias, is a much more consistent way to stop spam. Especially versus trusting the unsubscribe buttons or, god forbid, allowing a third party to access your emails to then just use the unsubscribe button.
That is a fair point actually. I was trying to answer their original question assuming they want to keep their old email address. But sometimes, the better answer is something they were not asking for, which is getting a new email address and starting fresh with a better workflow.
The downside is you do have to manually migrate your important accounts over, but that might actually be worth it for being intentional with services you continue to use and leaving old baggage behind.
Only if they want.
Having the initial setup being old email → alias → new email mean you don’t really need to change anything.
Their old email is still critical. They would still give that out as their email. They could even respond to friends and family from it. Now they just have this private email, that is uncluttered by spam. When they have to signup for new services they can now start using alias’ that can be easily disabled and replaced as needed.
Further down the road they could slowly start replacing account emails with aliases, to make it easier to manage, especially if there is a data leak at one of them.
Ok so I do have a simplelogin account, to be able to create alias (currently on the free version.) and that my main email don’t get trap in the loop of data breaches.
But i didn’t understood really what you recommend me sorry. You talked about forwarding email to the alias, but i though it was the opposite. Like alias get send to the actual mail. But i might have misunderstood.
Thank you for your time.
What I mean is you would forward emails from your current email address to an alias, that alias should then be connected to a new email address.
So in your case, you would create a new email adress. This would be your new private email that you do not tell people about.
Then you would change your SimpleLogin account to be connected to that email address.
Then you create an alias to act as a middle man between your old email address and the new one. This is so you can forward your emails to your new account. This also allow you to use the middle man alias to block any unwanted spam that is being sent to the old email address from reaching your new one.
Hopefully this makes sense.