I block every unwanted email I receive to keep my email inbox as signalful as possible (“block” is Gmail speak for “create a filter for this one email address and always send it to spam”).
Isn’t that a lot of work?
It’s certainly more than zero effort but the damage a low-signal email inbox is very high for me. Gmail’s built in spam filtering is good at catching the obvious stuff, but it flat out misses every cold email and recruiting agency. Missing a single important email can be the difference between closing a customer, fixing an issue, and making a hire.
My manual email spam filter list
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Unsubscribe Links Are a Sneaky Phishing Vector
Maybe you want to be nice. Maybe you don’t want to hurt another well-meaning business' email delivery because you know from experience how painful debugging deliverability issues can be. So you click the unsubscribe link or you click the unsubscribe button that Gmail handily derives from the email.