

This allows you to put certain types of emails, like subscription newsletters you want to keep, into a daily digest. The rollup feature of Unroll.Me is unique. This app looks to have a gentler approach that won’t stop you from getting the emails you want. If you’ve ever used an over-aggressive spam filter, then you know some of them can block messages you need. Unroll.Me states that the app can help you with the unsubscribe process so you’re not having to do all that work yourself. The spammers just put that up to skirt past spam regulators. The page won’t have a proper form and most likely, you’re not unsubscribing from anything for your time. Others will take you to a page that looks like you’re in a dangerous corner of the internet. Some retailers have legitimate unsubscribe pages and truly take you off their list. If you’ve ever gone on a rampage trying to unsubscribe from newsletters or spam mail, you’ll know that it’s not always simple. Let’s look at each one of those benefits that the app advertises. The app’s website notes that it helps you unsubscribe from unwanted emails, keeps the emails you want, and serves up the rest to you in a daily digest. Unroll.Me is an application that is supposed to give you a cleaner and less cluttered inbox. The more email you must sift through, the bigger the risk of one or more of them containing a malicious threat.

Just 10 minutes per workday equates to over 3 hours per month and about 40 hours per year (a whole workweek).īeyond the time spent, there is the danger of malware coming from a phishing email. If you spend just 10 minutes per day identifying and then deleting an unwanted email, that may not seem like a lot, until you add that up over the month and year. That’s a lot of time wasted sorting, deleting, and then permanently deleting unwanted messages. It’s estimated that 85% of all the emails we get are spam. And mixed in with spam, phishing, and newsletters you can’t seem to unsubscribe from are important messages that you actually need to read and respond to.

Email inboxes get filled up pretty quickly with unwanted messages.
