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Unsubscribe from all LinkedIn email in one click
- jgmmo 13y agocool idea. Can this be done for many sites? like macros that take advantage of the site's own JS.
- chengyinliu 13y agoI don't think it would be easy to write a global one for every site, but I think it would be cool to make a community-driven unsubscribe script collection.
- georgemcbay 13y agoWhile there would be some positive aspects of something like that, you'd either have to have it moderated strictly by a trusted moderator or make sure every user understood every line of all code they were executing from the site. The potential for scripts that did very bad things is immense, especially given how easily you can massively obfuscate JavaScript code.
- duncanmcdowell 13y agoTypically. For example, on reddit you can run this in console to downvote everything on a comment thread: $.each($(".down.arrow"), function(index, vote){ $(vote).click(); });
- chengyinliu 13y agoJust curious, is there any reason you used `$.each` instead of `$(".down.arrow").each`?
- hayksaakian 13y agoseems like the more functional-style way of doing it
- k3n 13y agoProtip: you don't even need an each() at all[1]. So the above could be written: $(".down.arrow").click(); 1. http://jsfiddle.net/k6FvQ/ http://jsfiddle.net/k6FvQ/
- bendangelo 13y agoThis won't down vote everything. Votes get throttled, so I guess a setTimeout has to be used.
- k3n 13y agoThey also explicitly state that you are to make no more than 30 requests/minute[1], or restated, no more than once every 2 seconds. 1. https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API
- baddox 13y agoThat's for the API. I don't think the official web site counts.
- k3n 13y agoThey also mention Greasemonkey scripts, which is functionally the same as running script from your console, so I believe it'd still apply. Either way, it's probably a good guide to follow if nothing else -- I mean, reddit still has near-daily capacity issues.
- fourstar 13y agoYeah, if there is jQuery or some other library available. Otherwise just fetch jQuery from the console and append it to the page, and do so.
- tlrobinson 13y agoOr, you know, don't use jQuery.
- mokkol 13y agoThanks! No more emails now!
- bendangelo 13y agoI unsubscribed from all emails and still get them.
- chengyinliu 13y agoDoes the settings page itself show all the options there set to "No Email"? If any item is not showing "No Email", then there might be something wrong with the script/bookmarklet for you. If all the items show "No Email", then LinkedIn does not provide options to unsubscribe some emails.
- baddox 13y agoI believe that's how LinkedIn works, but it's also the case even when attempting to permanently delete your account. I finally managed to successfully delete my LinkedIn account around 8 months ago, but then recently I accidentally followed a link to a LinkedIn page on my work machine, and apparently there was still a cookie around, so LinkedIn was kind enough to reactivate my account without warning. And oh how the spam did flow. To be extra careful, I think you need to unsubscribe from all email, deactivate your account, delete all LinkedIn cookies from all your machines, and you might as well kill linkedin.com in your hosts files.
- brador 13y agoMight be faster to just sue. If it's spam then there's laws to stop that. Plus juicy cash incentive if you win, and they might settle to stop the wave that follows if you win.
- eksith 13y agoOh, it's a lot worse than that : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/20/linkedin-sued-hacking-emails-spam_n_3963195.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/20/linkedin-sued-hacki...
- 001sky 13y agonext up: protecting your address book
- devindotcom 13y agoI left linkedin a long time ago but I still get emails when someone wants to connect. I must have opted out of those a dozen times! Nope, still get 'em. Also, pedant speaking here, "in one click" isn't really an accurate description of this process.
- hosay123 13y agoJust mark as spam, life's too short
- reddit_clone 13y agoActually since Gmail now has three tabs and the linkedin emails end up in the 'social' folder, it is less of a bother. Once in a while you go in and mass delete.
- lolbang 13y agoAs someone who keeps their inbox clean and pristine, your post just made me shudder...
- tlrobinson 13y agoEven better, create a filter to mark all of them as spam automatically.
- dminor 13y agoGmail's spam filter is so good that it even knows that I consider "LinkedIn Today" emails spam, but I still want to read the ones about my network.
- tobylane 13y agoI hope Google shared this sort of information with LinkedIn. "Your daily emails are reliably considered spam, by people who actually want to use your services."
- javajosh 13y agoLinkedIn is pretty bad. But why isn't there something better?
- onedev 13y agoBesides the emails, what do you think could be improved?
- ianstormtaylor 13y agoThe slimy interface that the slimy emails lead you to... Edit: if you want some concrete things... I can never tell if I'm on my "public" profile page or my profile settings page, or how to get to which one. One of them shows my connections and one doesn't or something, but I for some reason finding them is hard every time. I can also never (on the first try) get to a message someone has sent me, because clicking on the message leads me to the persons profile? or similar. Also I don't want to use messages in the first place, I want email even if it doesn't get LinkedIn ad revenue. I don't need people to vouch for my skills at all, most of them don't even know what low-level skills I use on a daily basis. Leaving a group isn't easy. The grays used all over the interface are pure gray, and feel dull, instead they should have a small amount of blue in them. The stream page has a "People you may know" box twice. I'm not "interested" in any of their ads. LinkedIn's problems stem from (1) a blatantly confusing interface or (2) a user-hostile, ad-focused monetization strategy.
- javajosh 13y agoI think LinkedIn is trying too hard to be more than what it is. It's the professional version of the town church. The town church used to record recording weddings, births and deaths. That's it. LinkedIn should be a record of hirings, leavings, new companies forming and old companies dissolving. Against the background of that basic information, people should be able to solicit me, freely, to come work for them - but they should be prepared to wait for a response as I'm not going to check in with the 'town church' all that often (unless I'm between gigs or thinking about a new gig). It might be nice to passively check in on past coworkers to see how their careers are progressing - but that's optional.
- untog 13y agoI went into LinkedIn and deleted all my profile details. No more spam from recruiters, but also no 'ghost' profile I have no control over. Not perfect, but it'll do.
- javajosh 13y agoYou can't know what ghost profile they have on you.
- christinac 13y agothe first time i followed these steps, i got a "sorry, your preferences can't be saved because you need to verify one of your email addresses" – which honestly felt about right. fortunately it worked the second time.
- 3327 13y agoThank you for your service to humanity.
- Cherian_Abraham 13y agoSomeone..please do one for Redbox. I am tired of getting spammed everytime I rent a movie.
- biot 13y agoProviding Redbox with your email address is optional, at least with the one I use. All they have on me is the info on my credit card magstripe.
- Gonzih 13y agoWell for me linkedin was pointless and annoying so I deleted my account. No regrets. Happy. And still alive.
- lttlrck 13y agoThat's the first thing I've ever shared on LinkedIn.
- baby 13y agoWhat about Google+ and Facebook? Although I would argue Google+ is the worse one since it automatically add you to every notification possible when you only want to sign up for a Mail Account.
- jaredmcateer 13y agoGoogle also doesn't seem to have an option to turn off the notification that your phone has automatically backed up photos and video to your G+ account and are ready to be shared. I've trained gmail to consider it spam though.
- latraveler 13y agoIt says something that LinkedIn has come to this. I've fiddled with the email settings on almost 10 separate occasions. Those controls do pretty much nothing though, either accidentally or intentionally.
- crunchykeith 13y agoJust did it! Thanks!
- maaaats 13y agoProblem here is that I would have to log in. And really, the problem for me isn't stuff sent to my mail, but invitations sent to every mailinglist I'm a part of.
- pslam 13y agoYou can unsubscribe from all LinkedIn email, but you'll still get email for any new category they invent later. So I keep having to do this every few months. For example: "endorsements" became a thing and suddenly I had to turn that pointless spam off too. I expect they'll invent a new product which involves opting everyone in.
- yahelc 13y agoTwitter does this (automatically subscribes you to each new category of email) as well, and it infuriates me to no end.
- ketralnis 13y agoThey also started sending me push notifications telling me that people that I follow started following other people. I have no idea why they think I'd want to know that. It took probably ten minutes with their app to figure out how to disable that.
- thwarted 13y agoPlease reveal what it is you did to disable those notifications.
- ketralnis 13y agoThey confirmed this to me a few months ago https://twitter.com/ketralnis/status/364861501590339584 https://twitter.com/ketralnis/status/364861501590339584 Me: surely there's a way to just say "don't ever email me ever for any reason, not even for future newsletters you make up" Them: Unfortunately that would mean adding you to our Do Not Contact list, however if you have an active acct we are not able to add u
- miguelrochefort 13y agoThat's funny. I found out that I ignore emails from most websites, except those from LinkedIn. I don't know why, but I click on all of them (and usually follow the link). No other website is able to bring me back with emails. Maybe it's because I never go on LinkedIn otherwise. Maybe it's because all the emails they send me are paired with an action, maybe it's just an habit I gained. In any case, they work for me.
- bnb 13y agoShouldn't you be able to do this with a link in the footer of their emails? If I recall correctly, it's US law that companies (and websites in general) have to put unsubscribe links in their emails.
- talles 13y agoJust thank you.
- julienchastang 13y agoDoes anyone know of something like this for Facebook?
- jasonlingx 13y agoDo this for Twitter please
- thangh9 13y agolol linkedin's emails are annoying
- DigitalSea 13y agoThis is perfect. Nothing much else to say really. I am getting sick and tired of LinkedIn's spam and dodgy techniques when it comes to marketing. This should temporarily stop the spam until they decide to add more mail-out categories. I cancelled my LinkedIn premium membership just before as well. As a premium user you still get spammed the same as a non-premium user and I can live without it. Vote with your wallet as they say. LinkedIn really need to re-valuate where they stand, you know a situation is desire when many people share a similar sentiment and you have to resort to using Javascript hacks to unsubscribe from email notifications, it shouldn't be this hard.
- owensmartin 13y agoSomeone PLEASE do this for meetup
- owensmartin 13y agoOkay I did it myself: https://gist.github.com/javahead123/7045923 https://gist.github.com/javahead123/7045923
- Kequc 13y agoI don't understand why everyone doesn't just mark all Linkedin email as spam. That's what I did eventually all email from Linkedin goes to spam. That's what to do with spam.
- grpcc 13y agoThis is nice, LinkedIn are infuriating. My startup is in the email space and we have a very strong opinion against sending spam and providing genuine unsubscribes. Unsubscribing someone is easy, there's no excuse except that they don't want to. Keep adding them to spam as their ESP probably has a feedback loop and it could affect their sending reputation eventually.