News, guides and updates from the Leave Me Alone team.
An email detox is one afternoon of cutting inbox volume, plus a system that keeps it quiet. Six steps: measure, unsubscribe, digest, screen, pause, block.
Doomscrolling runs on negativity bias. Six research-backed ways to stop: the swap technique, friction, time-boxed news, and a phone-free bedroom.
Looking for an email spam blocker, not a call blocker? Here is how the best spam blockers for email work in 2026 and how to pick one that stays private.
An email digest combines your newsletters into one scheduled summary instead of dozens of separate emails. Here is how email digests work and how to set one up.
What a notification detox is and how to run one: audit which apps can interrupt you, kill badges first, batch the rest, and stop email notifications.
An email screener lets you approve or block a new sender the first time they email you, so only people you allow reach your inbox. Here is how email screening works.
How Unroll.me actually works: the Gmail permission it asks for, the scan, what Block, Rollup and Keep really do, and what NielsenIQ does with your inbox.
Delete your Unroll.me account via web, iOS, or the public deletion route, then revoke its read access on your Google or Microsoft account. Under five minutes.
What did Unroll.me sell to Uber? The 2017 NYT exposé, the Lyft receipt pipeline, the Slice/Rakuten/NielsenIQ ownership chain, the 2019 FTC settlement, 2026 status.
In 2019 the FTC settled with Unroll.me over deceptive sign-up pop-ups. No fine, four consent order terms, a class action dismissed in 2018. Here is what really changed.
