Privacy How to send privacy friendly emails We spend a lot of time thinking about the ethics of email. In this post we explore a "code of ethics" for email senders.
Product Unsubscribe and help save the planet this Black Friday weekend 🌳 It's that time of year again. Your mailbox is overflowing with unwanted Black Friday emails and you feel totally overwhelmed by the volume. But it doesn't have to be this way! Black Friday weekend is the perfect opportunity to have a giant mailbox cleanup once and for all.
Behind the Scenes How we made our SaaS homepage cookie-free 🍪 We spent a few days removing all the cookies from our homepage, here's what we changed.
Case Studies How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work? How exactly does the Gmail unsubscribe button work and how can you make sure it always shows for your mailing-list emails?
Product New charity donation options: COVID-19 Response Fund & Lanta Animal Welfare We now have 3 charities you can donate to at the checkout; plant a tree, contribute to COVID-19 research, or help to fund an animal shelter. Clean your inbox and give back to the world.
Tips and Tricks How to block email trackers and read receipts Almost every email we get these days is tracking us! In this post we look at what you can do to prevent tracking pixels and read-receipts.
Tips and Tricks Should I unsubscribe from emails in my spam folder? If an email ends up in your spam folder (unless you put it there yourself), there's a good chance that is has been flagged by your email provider as malicious. So should you unsubscribe from it or will that make things worse?
Tips and Tricks Introducing the "tracker" and "unread" tags to help you unsubscribe If you've logged into Leave Me Alone recently then you may have noticed that some of the subscriptions in your mail list are sporting some new tags, tracker and unread.
Case Studies Do companies who spam you with post also spam you with email? We teamed up with our friends over at PaperKarma to figure out quite how strong the correlation was between email subscriptions and real life paper mail.
Product Introducing our new browser extension for scoring mailing lists - Subscription Score Introducing Subscription Score, our brand new browser extension that identifies bad mailing lists and stops spam before it happens!
Product Changes to how you login and connect your Gmail accounts to Leave Me Alone From the 1st January 2020 we are changing the way you login and connect your Gmail accounts to Leave Me Alone. Here's everything you need to know.
Behind the Scenes How this traveling couple built an app that helps you unsubscribe from unwanted emails Hello! I am Danielle, a digital nomad and indie maker. I am originally from the UK, but for the past 3 years I have been traveling full-time with my partner, best friend, and fellow developer James. This is the story of how we built Leave Me Alone!
Product How to unsubscribe from Black Friday emails Unsubscribe from newsletters, marketing spam, unwanted discounts, and other subscription emails. Take back control of your inbox this Black Friday!
Privacy Bootstrapping with a simple, low-cost tech stack Looking to create a tech stack that priorities privacy? Learn more about the technologies that power our privacy-friendly email unsubscribing service!
Product How we created competitor comparison pages for Leave Me Alone We created competitor pages to help people see how Leave Me Alone compares to the competition. Compare Leave Me Alone with Unroll.Me, Unsubscriber, and Cleanfox today!
Product How we share all of our company stats and metrics publicly At Leave Me Alone we are proud to be an Open Startup. This is how we created our open page to share all of our metrics like revenue, users, emails unsubscribed from, and more!
Product We live streamed for 14 hours from Bali for our v2.0 launch! To celebrate our v2.0 launch we hosted an event, interviewed entrepreneurs from around the world, and live streamed the whole day from Bali. Here's a breakdown of the most crazy, incredible, and exhausting 14 hours of our lives!
Product Announcing the official launch of Leave Me Alone v2.0 Today, after 9 months of listening to all of your feedback, Leave Me Alone v2.0 is finally here! Your unsubscribing experience just got a whole lot better!
Product We were featured in Lifehacker and got 1,057 new customers in 5 days We were featured in Lifehacker and a newsletter with 28k subscribers within the space of 5 days. Here's a breakdown of traffic, sales, and other interesting stats.
Product How we get awesome testimonials from our customers Customer testimonials are important for both marketing and social validation. Here's how we get awesome testimonials from our customers to feature on our Wall of Love.
Product Unwanted emails dump 28,397 tonnes of CO₂ into the atmosphere every day See the impact of unwanted emails on the planet and fight climate change by unsubscribing with Leave Me Alone. See the carbon footprint of your inbox now!
Guests Three companies who embrace transparency and openness Baremetrics, Buffer, and Glitch are three companies who have built trust from being consistently transparent and open - here's what worked for them.
Privacy Not all third-party tools are evil It seems like every week there is another privacy scandal hitting the news. Therefore it is not surprising that many people are concerned that all third-party tools are evil. Here are several privacy-friendly third-party tools you can use today.
Product Why we changed our pricing We recently released a new version of Leave Me Alone and we wanted to share why we changed our pricing model from time-based to credit-based.
Privacy 5 simple ways to protect your online data in an age of privacy scandals The idea that a company will sell your personal information in exchange for their services is not acceptable. Here's 5 simple steps you can take to protect your data.
