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Does that handle the huge torrent of ads well? Seemingly every website and brick and mortar I've shopped at ever sends me at least one email per day.

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The unsubscribe buttons on those emails mostly work, by law. My life improved a lot when I started taking the ten seconds to unsubscribe from everything, vs. just deleting.

I often find myself constantly deleting/ignoring these emails instead of just hitting "unsubscribe". It's so weird how our human laziness works because I swear not many people unsubscribe from emails even though it is typically very easy. It is satisfying when I go in and unsubscribe to a bunch of junk.

> The unsubscribe buttons on those emails mostly work, by law

They won't for some arbitrary percentage of emails. And even then, they will keep coming from new places.

You can use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each email. I have done this probably hundreds of times over the past 5 years and it has worked as expected with no undesirable side effects.

Spamassassin with a 7.5 threshold and other measures like DMARC checks has worked surprisingly well for me in recent years.

A mail client with its local bayesian filtering works fine for me, given you take a little time to flag spam and tune the filter. I use Thunderbird.

Use a unique email address for every service you have to sign up for. Optionally combined with sieve filter to sort them accordingly.

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