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My Dot went through 15 years of marketing mail and unsubscribed me

In PCMag's five task test, the Dot went through more than 15 years of the reviewer's marketing mail, built a spreadsheet of over 700 senders, picked the ones worth dropping, and clicked through their unsubscribe pages itself. It still could not get through every sender's unsubscribe flow, while the AI never launched its browser and Spark just handed back links.

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How it works

  1. Connect Gmail
  2. Scan more than 15 years of promotional mail
  3. Build a spreadsheet of over 700 marketing senders
  4. Narrow the list to the senders worth removing
  5. Open third party unsubscribe pages in its browser and click through them
  6. Some flows still fail

Why it’s worth knowing

It did the clicking itself across hundreds of sender sites. The other two agents in the same test stopped at making a list.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on windowsforum.com. See the original ↗

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