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A couple months back I went through and marked every single email as read in my inbox, and now I keep up with it every day. I currently have 0. Feels good.
Keeping up with at least opening every email I get also allows me to unsubscribe to the annoying ones with extreme prejudice.
The one that's been baffling me is "Instant Gaming"... I never signed up for their service, had never even heard of it before. I started getting weekly emails. I went to go unsubscribe, and in order to unsubscribe, I need to log in, which obviously I can't do because I don't have an account. There's no way I'm going to sign up JUST to unsubscribe. I've tried contacting their customer service but nobody cares. I just set it as spam.
You might want to check if your email has been leaked since youve been getting spam from service you didnt subscribe. https://haveibeenpwned.com/
One thing i learn is never ever use your main email to register or subsribe anything. Its either going to get leaked or getting sold. Use temporary email generator or use email alias. Its easy once you got spam just delete the email address.
Or in your case, set up a rule for that address straight to oblivion. No need to bother opening the spam folder to delete it.
Yeah, my main Gmail is almost 20 years old, it's been leaked a ton, that's the one I share with people. I have a Proton mail for the really important stuff like identity-related things. There's still a bunch of services that have my Gmail as the main contact, and I've thought about going and meticulously changing them all to the Proton address, but it hasn't been a problem thus far. Plus, having a firstname.lastname gmail address is convenient, and I haven't found another service that I could switch to these days that will give me that same convenience (I've been gaining interest in self-hosting, so that's on the horizon maybe)
I get surprisingly little actual junk/spam all things considered.
Ooh. 20 years is a long time. That's understandable. Yeah, firstname.lastname email address is convenient and professional for important stuff. I have a own domain with my name for really important stuff. The rest of it, i use alias service like addy.io.
Didnt proton acquired simple login a while back. Easier to use them for email alias. I'd be wary to change all my account with my main email address. I dread the day that my email got leaked or something.