It seems like political campaigns heavily use Salesforce's Pardot and it seems like many companies use Mailchimp, Constant Contact, and similar solutions.
I'm at my wits end considering that no matter how many hours I spend unsubscribing, someone else is sending me email I don't want.
Is there an actual service that can block all emails sent from CRM companies or Newsletter providers?
I'm at the point where I don't want to go through the unsubscribe process for dozens and dozens of individual companies each day. I want to unsubscribe from anything and everything sent by "Marketing automation" companies.
If it matters, I use iCloud email (along with a few other providers,) but Gmail-specific tools aren't helpful.
I would love to be able to contact Salesforce and other CRM providers and just say, "don't let any of your customers ever email me."
Is there a way out of this? (BTW, unroll.me and similar services are anti-patterns -- they can read all of your email and sell your email data and on top of that, they don't even unsubscribe you, they just trash received emails.)
Has anyone solved this problem? I'd pay $100 right now for an inbox free from any email that contains an "unsubscribe" link. I realize that I can create mail rules in my Apple mail client. However, that's not stopping the sending in the first place. (And client-side mail rules are useless unless the specific client is always running.)
If you don't want to authorize an app to do that, consider utilizing inbox rules to automatically delete those emails, but for that you will need to find patterns in subject lines/use of your name/ keywords (how about auto archive every email with the word "donate", or move it to a folder you can review when you want to) etc. And just keep optimizing.
CAN-spam act requires every email have an unsubscribe link and that you are removed from lists when you ask too. If these guidelines aren't followed those organizations can be liable to very large fines.
Hope this helps. I'm personally a Gmail user and the "Promotions" and "Social" tabs have done wonders for me inbox