Leave Me Alone - Easily unsubscribe from spam emails 💌

@jordankrueger A fair question. You're right in that this isn't a spam filter, it wont protect you from one-off spam emails that are not part of a subscription service. By "spam" we're really referring to all "graymail" - subscriptions that you once subscribed to that you no longer want, or subscriptions that you may have been subscribed to against your will. We should probably put this in the FAQ so thanks for asking!

@jamesivings Yeah, you shouldn't conflate the two as you're doing above. Just because you no longer want email from a sender does not mean that it's spam, as long as there's an easy unsubscribe process. Any bulk sender "following the rules" provides a clear unsubscribe process. Spam is email that you did not sign up for and from your answer it appears that you have no way of actually unsubscribing someone from that unless the sender is going to respect your unsubscribe request, which seems unlikely to me. So the advertising here is taking some liberties.

@jordankrueger Yes you're probably right. However to most users "spam" means any emails that they don't want to receive anymore. Including both one-off spam and all graymail. We'll have a think about how better to represent this on the homepage. Thanks for your feedback!

@jamesivings @jordankrueger some of this is spam though. I frequently end up on email lists "because I interacted with X service". Sure I can click unsubscribe and they'll remove me from that list, but it's spam because I never agreed to be mailed in the first place. I can't count the number of "Bob/Jane from X Startup: How are you finding our service? Tips for getting started" automated emails that I've gotten. Even if I have no desire to be part of an on-boarding flow. Hell, I somehow ended up on a US democrat/left mailing list that seems to just get passed onwards and onwards (i.e. different causes). I'm Australian, so it's pretty obvious (to me at least) that I shouldn't be on those mailing lists. This is spam, even if it is "well behaved legal spam".

@jamesivings @vertis And you're sure that in those cases the form you submitted your information into didn't clearly say something like, "You'll receive emails from us"? I bet that's true for most cases. I'm not saying there aren't senders who fall into a gray zone – just like yourself, I've experienced signing up for a service and then getting a promotional-type email in which there isn't even an unsubscribe link on there. Or some kind of outreach like you received with no opt-out. There are bad habits, for sure. But my concern is more about conflating "spam" with "email I don't want anymore," which ARE two different things. And the reason this is important is because the more we blur this line, the more users believe that "I haven't opened these emails for a few weeks so I don't want to get them anymore and therefore it's spam" is a true statement, the more it empowers inbox providers like Gmail to abuse email as a protocol and start "tailoring" experiences for users as if their inbox was a Facebook timeline. That's a bad thing because it creates a scenario where small but "good" senders – say, your local community group – suddenly have to either be willing to pay to get into the inbox (via the promotions tab) or have to have a level of knowledge that's simply impractical to "organically" arrive in the inbox.

@lorikarikari This is awesome! I'm so glad we are able to provide you with an alternative. Your comment is everything we were trying to achieve 💛 - thank you so much!

@c10v32c1u6 haha this is awesome - almost saves lives? 😅 Thanks so much for your support!

@growmap Hey Gail. Sorry about this 😞. We do have plans to support other providers soon! What provider would you like us to add? You can vote on our roadmap https://leavemealone.xyz/roadmap and I'll add it if yours isn't there 😇

@dinkydani21 I use email that is on my own domain because it is more private. Why hand everything you think, do, and write to the people aggregating it all? Of course that doesn't really help much if almost everyone chooses to use gmail and they get it all because of that. I thought people were using it because there was no spam?

@growmap That makes sense! When I moved to Gmail from Hotmail years ago there was very little spam and I think they still do a good job of filtering out actual spam emails. What Leave Me Alone helps with is greymail which is subscription emails which you may not want any more or may have been subscribed to by a third party.

@sharesinsideag Thank you! Emails totally suck right?! Hopefully we can help you get less of them 😄

@ankit_kumar3 That's huge! The record is 316 - could this be you?! 🤔 haha - thank you for using our app!

@utestme Hey! Thanks for purchasing. It sounds like your bank was declining the transaction for some reason. I can see your payment has gone through now so that's good. Due to our policy of not storing any email information if you log in on a different device then you wont be able to see the results of a scan that was performed elsewhere. However if you visit the scan history page (https://leavemealone.xyz/app/his...), then you should be able to re-run the 6 month scan from your mobile.

Haha yeah we can't really re-subscribe you 😅 but you can use the "Favourite senders" feature so that you don't accidentally unsubscribe from any more. Just click the little ❤️