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by joshschreuder 1468 days ago
Semi related - does Gmail have a way to hit unsubscribes en masse?

At the moment it is possible if you select many emails and “Report as Spam”, if there is an unsub link you can also unsub at the same time, but this feels kind of punitive to report something as spam that I once signed up for and no longer want to see. At the same time going through emails one by one to find the unsub links is SO tedious.

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My semi-related suggestion: Even if you don't use it now, download Thunderbird (you can delete it after), add your Gmail account, then once it has synced, select all the messages you want (maybe even your entire inbox for good measure), then go to File -> Save As -> File. The folder you select here will be populated with your emails as EML files.

Once you have that folder, just use unsubscan to get all the links presented to you in a static HTML page broken down by sender domain.