Assuming unsubscribe works and isn't just confirming your email is valid.

Mark it as spam and let your email client do the work. Clicking unsubscribe can have negative consequences like confirming to the spammer that you are an actual human.

I just mark as spam

Even if unsubscribe "works", and you get removed from the list, you just get added to the list again for the next campaign.

If it's not something you subscribed to then it's spam.

If I can reasonably believe I did subscribe by mistake, unsubscribe. If there is no chance I willing consented to it, report as spam.

Login to Unsubscribe

Wait, are people genuinely not unsubscribing immediately from random advertisements? RIP their inbox i guess.

The annoying part for me is Pi-Hole often blocks those unsubscribe links - understandably so, it's literally a link to a website operated by the exact spammers Pi-Hole is trying to block. I've started taking advantage of my email service's alias feature. Anytime a site wants my address for something, I just generate an alias address (that I can disable/delete at any time) that redirects to my regular inbox. And since the alias address typically contains the site's name, I know exactly who sold my data if I start getting spam from something I never signed up for.

I just report as spam and block

Let them deal with the spamlist fallout

Hitting 'unsubscribe':

• Takes you to website where you have to go through multiple steps of inquisition: your email, are you sure, want to just get less, are you really sure, give us a reason, ok it's queued up and we'll get to it whenever.

Or,

• Hey, this is a live email. Ok, whatever, thanks. We'll make more money selling this email to data brokers. Mission accomplished.

If on gmail, hit unsubscribe.

Warning unsubcribe buttons can be phishing attempts.

Fun LPT from me: I always read the notifications, but I don’t actually open most of my emails. Once they build up about 6mo worth I sort by sender and set rules to automatically delete or mark as read ones I get a lot of. Like, I don’t need to know my credit card statement is available. That email has no usable information. So now it bypasses my inbox and doesn’t bother me ever again.

Unsubscribe is good too, but sometimes you want to filter out certain keywords like “receipt” but allow other stuff through for a certain address.

Blocking is sometimes better option. If its a unknown or sketchy link, its better to block than unsubscribe.

If you’re not in my whitelist, you don’t get to my inbox.

Simple.

Or, hear me out: neither. Make your devices cry when they try to display the number of unopened emails you have.

I spend a moment blocking their domain in postfix.

I know multiple people like this, but it's such an alien mindset to me xD

I only ever keep stuff in my inbox that I'm not done dealing with, everything else gets archived in its appropriate category 🤓️

Oooohhh… clearly you have never donated to progressive causes… because deleting this shit FOREVER is not the only way to keep the inbox clean. Unsubscribing is a waste of time… they have lots and lots of telephone numbers.

And before you tell me I’m not a progressive anymore… I’m still donating… but it’s cash only for these pricks.

Me, with 70,000 unread emails in my inbox.

If it's something I know I subscribed to, I'll unsubscribe once, then immediately setup a filter to automatically mark anything new coming from that sender as spam.

If it's something I didn't subscribe to, I just skip straight to the filter.

I want to know why your clicking of an unsubscribe button takes twice the time of the clicking of a presumably comparable delete button.

Or I could set a filter to auto delete them...

Can I please have a whitelist on my inbox?

I have a script to lookup the whois info for the sending IP address. Forward the message, with headers to them, saying "unsubscribe", then block that IP with a firewall.

ITT not enough people using unique email addresses per company.

I know exactly who I gave that email address to and therefore who you got it from. If unsubscribe doesn't work then that email address gets disabled.

Use email masking and block the mask.

I was seriously the latter group, until I took the time to unsub from GOG's countless barrage of emails. I'm still subbed to 2-Minute Tabletop because their emails don't show up too much and usually have more in them than just sales and wishlist games.

Deleting is way too much hassle. I mark them as read (sometimes) and move on. Until I get annoyed enough to go on an unsubscribe rampage

It's a Black Friday tradition. By that date, everyone starts sending offers so that's a good time to unsubscribe from all of that.

More important than this is to utilise labels/filters on your email provider. I only recently gave my email account a sorting out and now i have like 23 subtabs across 6 primary tabs

Maximize gains for the short term only, and screw the long term. Of course!

I am so used to the unsubscribe button not even doing anything that it is actually easier to simply add the sender to my block list.