# Improving our unsubscribe functionality

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-our-unsubscribe-functionality/41448>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [22 Marzo 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-our-unsubscribe-functionality/41448 "2016-03-22T23:44:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![calmh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/calmh/32/115466_2.png) [@calmh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/calmh)\
**Post date:** [23 Marzo 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-our-unsubscribe-functionality/41448/15 "2016-03-23T19:45:49Z")

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I’ve been doing a fair amount of cleanup the last month or two, taking care to actually unsubscribe from stuff that I don’t want (but in some sense signed up for). In that process I’ve unsubscribed from probably 30-40 sites recently. All but one of them had an “unsubscribe” link that worked without login - the exception was one that required a login I no longer had, and actually generated an angry mail to their support. Of the rest, about two thirds required a button push and then gave the “unsubscribed; sorry to see you go” page. The last third just unsubscribed me directly and without further prompts. None required typing in an email address (apart from the one exception I mentioned).

I mention this as a data point for best practices. Do have an unsubscribe link. Don’t require login. Don’t require typing in an email. Don’t worry about forwarded digests.

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