Use Gmail’s Unsubscribe and Block buttons to clean up your inbox

Daniel Bean
·Assistant Editor

Trying to keep your head above water in an email inbox — it can be a pain in the neck.

For the gobs of people using Google’s wildly popular Gmail service, however, the handy Unsubscribe and Block buttons can be used to help manage onslaughts of unwanted email, whether they’re from subscriptions you’ve grown tired of or plain old unsolicited spammers.

Most emails you’ve signed up to receive have a tiny-text unsubscribe link somewhere at the bottom. What Gmail has done is put a simple Unsubscribe button at the top of those emails that will take you off of the email list without you having to visit a site to do it.

And, of course, the Block button on Gmail will, pretty straightforwardly, prevent any emails from annoying chain-letter senders — or whomever — from reaching your inbox in the future. Just click over to the More arrow, then select “Block,” and you’ll never hear from them again.

So there you are. Go forth and take back control of your inbox!

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