How to eliminate email and app subscriptions?

Users receive throughout the day all types of emails in their entrance tray: those that interest them and who come from senders who intend to offer information on jobs or purchases they have done;and those that belong to companies, many of them social networks, whose content is fundamentally advertising.

Advertising emails usually belong to fashion or leisure companies, or social networks, which have included the user in a distribution list to send emails about their service and that, on many occasions, the user does not even remember when he has agreed to receiveSuch information.

'The January concerts have already come out', for example if they come from a concert hall, or 'Discover the novelties of the week', in the case of music applications in streaming as spotify, they are some examples of this type of 'emails'.

To end these mass emails, there are several methods that users can use to unsubscribe from their corresponding subscriptions through different websites and options within the email applications and services.

Through email

The most common option not to receive promotional emails from a specific sender is to go to the lower part of the email body.Here an option usually appears that warns the user that he can unsubscribe from the distribution list.To do this, you just have to click on the option 'Using', 'Using this list' or 'Cancel Subscription'.

The web will generally lead to a window in which the user will have to select among several options why he wants to unsubscribe to then be eliminated from the distribution list.In this way, he will no longer receive any email from that sender, unless he regret again.

Another option to unsubscribe from the distribution list from email is to use the link that Google has incorporated for it.In a computer version, the user will have to open an email from the sender who wants to cancel the reception of messages.Next to the name of the sender, the option 'Cancel Subscription' or 'Change preferences' appears.

In the mobile version of Gmail, this option appears in the three points that are in the upper right, which display a series of options among which is 'cancel subscription'.However, Google, on its Gmail aid page, warns that this option may not appear -not on the web or mobile.Then, urge the sender or mark the message as 'spam'.

To unsubscribe from a subscription list in iOS Mail and in Outlook the mechanism that must be followed is the same, although in these cases the option of eliminating subscription on the desktop appears on the email sender instead of next to it.In the case of Yahoo, it is only allowed to mark as 'spam' or junk email both on mobile and desktop.

Tools for mass elimination

On the other hand, if the user prefers to delete their subscriptions in a more comfortable way and making a complete deletion of their data so as not to leave their presence on the corresponding platform, it can do it through tools created specifically for it as delete me,Unsustriber, unlist or until recently Unroll.me.

In the case of deleting me, it is a tool that can be accessed through the page on the right cybersecurity of the Net, Shopify, Spotify, Twitter, Skype, LinkedIn, Google, Flickr, Badoo, Reddit, Slack, Telegram and Yammer.

The user will have to click on the corresponding service link available on the page, which will redigate the official page of the application of which you want to unsubscribe.This will have to log in with your account and follow the steps that appear on the screen.

Another tool is Unsustriber, which follows a mechanism similar to the previous one.The user must log in to their email account through the web, where a 'Unsuscript' folder will be created (discharged).There, you must drag and introduce all those unwanted emails, so that the tool will automatically block the 'emails' that enter the sender in the entrance tray.

Then, the tool will notify the corresponding email sender that the user wishes to cancel their subscription and be deleted from the distribution list.Until this happens, the emails of that sender will be stored in the 'Unsuscript' folder.

Another tool is Unlist, which can be used in outlook, iOS and Android to automatically eliminate all those emails not desired by the user.The user will have to install the application, select the email senders from those who do not want to receive content and Unlist will automatically eliminate all those emails that come from that sender and "car will be discharged", as they point out on their website.

Unroll.me was a tool that also allowed to eliminate subscriptions to mass emails such as Unsustriber or eliminame, but is currently not available in the European Union or in the European economic area, as they assure from their website.

This is due to its incompatibility with the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union, since it collects the information collected from users for analytical and market study purposes.

Delete only some notifications

On the other hand, for those users who do not want to delete their subscription to a complete distribution list but only to certain information that sends the services, it can be done through the settings of each application.

Así, en Spotify, si acude a su perfil, a Notificaciones, el usuario podrá seleccionar qué tipo de información quiere recibir por correo electrónico y qué no. Lo mismo sucede en redes sociales como Twitter, donde el usuario puede acudir a 'Configuración y Privacidad' dentro del menú de opciones de su perfil, a 'Notificaciones' --> 'Notificaciones por correo electrónico'. Ahí podrá seleccionar qué contenidos quiere recibir a través de ese servicio.

El mismo mecanismo se puede seguir en Facebook, dentro de 'Notificaciones' --> Correo electrónico'. Y también en Instagram, accediendo a 'Notificaciones' dentro de 'Configuración' en el perfil, y al apartado 'Correo electrónico y SMS'.

In short, the user has various mechanisms to eliminate subscriptions that have active distribution lists.Companies use them to send advertising information or with informative newsletters, and therefore it is importantAt least, knowing that you have the option of selecting what information you want to receive about it.

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