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by kdoherty 3347 days ago
I have tried the service, and my interactions with it have confirmed all perceived sketchiness:

In a moment of desperation, I signed up for this a while back. I found it not to be useful and tried to remove my account with the site, which turns out to be essentially impossible.

I ended up revoking access to my email account and continued to receive emails from unroll.me that the service "has lost its connection to your account," which I found hilarious, because in my desperate attempt to get rid of spam, I created more.

I've tried to unsubscribe from these unroll.me emails several times before, and the unsubscribe link takes me to a page containing all the subscriptions that the service once found on my account (the one you'd see if you were trying to use the service---so all that data is still there, for sure, and it has been many months), and I have never actually been unsubscribed.

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...and they still have all of your emails! You can't take back the emails they've already archived, which (presumably) is everything that was in your inbox before you disconnected your Gmail account.