Andy Walker / Android Authority
If you’d ask me to find an apt analogy for my Gmail accounts, I’d equate them with junkyards — heaps of trash that no one wants to touch or sort. And those heaps are only spreading wider and growing taller with new junk thrown on top every single day.
That’s exactly the kind of clutter my Gmail accounts have hoarded over the years, with my email addresses ending up in hundreds, if not thousands, of mailing lists, without or with forced consent. That sneaky little checkbox that doesn’t let you proceed unless you click it? Yeah, that’s the culprit. And I know I’m not alone in this boat.
Whatever the reason may be, the result is that our inboxes are flooding with marketing emails, and each one of those spammers has added our emails to tens of their mailing lists. So good luck manually unsubscribing from each one of them. If only Gmail had a tool to automate at least part of the process, it would be a game-changer, right?
Oh wait, Gmail just got that very tool — and it’s already proving to be a boon for me!
Have you tried Gmail’s new Manage subscriptions feature yet? 45 votes Yes — total game changer! 18 % Not yet, but I want to 24 % Didn't know it existed 51 % I'll stick to ignoring emails 7 %
Didn’t I just unsubscribe from that?
Joe Maring / Android Authority
Brands make it particularly hard to unsubscribe from their newsletters, mailing lists, and marketing materials, either by adding multiple steps in the process on their own websites, making you write them an email to get it done, or sneaking in a highlighted resubscribe button right after you’ve unsubscribed, hoping you’ll click it by mistake.
Even if you’re successful in unsubscribing from these pesky emails, there’s a good chance you’ll continue receiving emails from their other mailing lists. You have to deregister from each of them one by one — all manually.
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