| Get at least 1 more email address and keep it only for services you pay for.
The biggest problem with subscribing is the on selling of email addresses. Get a proton paid mail account and your own domain. Setup a "catchall" address.
Now when you subscribe to "something" then use the name of the "something" with your domain name as the email address.
Example:
to logon to Hacker News use the address hackernews@yourdomaim.com. You do not need to setup an email address the catchall receives your email. If you get spam addressed to hackernews@yourdomain.com you know Hacker News on sold your address. If you don't after a month or so change your hacker news address to your legitimate address.
You cannot send from these catchall addresses, but if you truly need to you setup a legitimate email with that particular address and send it then delete it.
Proton Mail have excellent spam filtering anyway.
There are other providers that do the same. The biggest problem with "unsubscribe" is that it effectively verifies that email address. You may unsubscribe from one list only to be added to lots of other lists because it is a verified email address. I found a great way to reduce spam is to have email address that looks like a big company ie google@yourdomain.com or microsoft@yourdomain.com Your email client needs attention. Make sure you haven't set it to save all incoming addresses and the spam filter to "ignore spam setting for emails in my address book".
I am not familiar with google mail but make sure the same sort of thing is not setup for gmail. (...we don't read your emails we just extract anonymous information for market research purposes..so spam is never an affiliate?) To solve your present problem set aside at least 1 hour a day and setup block lists.
You need to ruthlessly organize your contacts lists.
The problem will get worse before it gets better.
I found unsubscribing just breeds more. It is going to take weeks or months, but the short term pain will be worth it. By the way I think gmail may have limits on its spam filtering. (...we don't filter out affiliates....really?) You could get your corporate IT to setup all lists with separate sender addresses to allow filtering, but they will probably hate you for asking... |