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Call me crazy, but for a problem folks seem to imply has had everything, including the the kitchen sink thrown at it... why do I have yet to see a single email that has the unsubscribe button at the very top, front and center, the absolute first thing I see?

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It is. It literally is.

Whenever gmail, thunderbird or office365 outlook notices a working unsubscribe link in a message, it puts its own unsubscribe link at the top of the message, right next to the address of the sender's email.

I’m sure you mean the content of the email, but we dont reach out to double opt-in users or transactional emails with an unsubscribe link, since you chose to be there.

The unsubscribe link lives near the bottom of the email along with the link to support, in clear text in a font and colour that matches the content.

I remember seeing that in Gmail years ago, but haven't seen it in a long time. I thought they removed the feature.

Funny, I know to hit the spam button at the top and the unsubscribe bottom buried in a link at the email footer. Am I blind? Have I somehow clicked "spam" and "unsubscribe" hundreds of times without seeing an obvious "unsubscribe" button at the top? Very dubious.

Nope! Just checked Gmail WebView. There is a toolbar at the top with a very prominent"spam" button, and two kebab menus with "filter messages like this", "report spam", "report phishing", but no unsubscribe button.

It only shows up if the email has a List-Unsubscribe header set.

In Gmail it will appear as a banner underneath the row of buttons

>Whenever gmail, thunderbird or office365 outlook notices a working unsubscribe link in a message, it puts its own unsubscribe link at the top of the message, right next to the address of the sender's email.

I've never seen such a thing. I just checked Thunderbird, on an email that has an unsubscribe link. There was no such button.

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