How to unsubscribe from unwanted email
by charisb
Chances are, your email inbox is a mix of important messages, Amazon Prime shipping notices, bill alerts, and other easy-to-ignore offers.
But spam creeps in. Sometimes you do it yourself—enter your email address to win that contest!—and sometimes others do it for you. Thanks for the blankof-the-month club email list, mom.
Luckily, there are easy ways to kill unwanted emails, and they don’t involved sending invective-filled rants to the sender.
Unsubscribe Links Made Easy
The cleanest w
ay to get off a list is to use the built-in unsubscribe option. That link is generally buried at the bottom of the message, in tiny type or made to not even look like a link, all the better to keep you subscribed.
(The chance that the unsubscribe link is a trick—a way to confirm you are a real person—is low. Be smart about it; if something looks fishy, just delete.)
Gmail makes it easy to unsubscribe on the desktop. Whenever it notices a working unsubscribe link in a message, it puts its own unsubscribe link at the top of the message, right next to the address of the sender’s email. Click it and a giant Unsubscribe button appears.
It’s a little harder on mobile. In the Gmail for iOS, the only option at this point is to mark a message as spam; tap the three dots on the top right > Report spam. On Android, touch the menu; if the sender offers an easy unsubscribe option, the word Unsubscribe will appear on the menu.
Prominent unsubscribe links are also found on Outlook.com and the Outlook apps as well. On the web, it says “Getting too much email? Unsubscribe” at the top of a supported message.
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