This is exactly how I feel too.

If reporting the email as spam is quicker than unsubscribing, that's what I do.

It takes way too many clicks to report spam in GMail. Considering this is such a frequent operation, it should have a one-button "ban" function, possibly with an "Oops" undo if you pressed it by mistake. I have received quite a bit of Cloudflare spam on my (GMail) work address and immediately added it to my ban list. I also have a long memory and am highly unlikely to use services from companies that rely on spam for marketing.

For my personal email I run my own mail server, create a unique address for each vendor and ban the address if it is abused.

> I run my own mail server, create a unique address for each vendor and ban the address if it is abused

I do the same and it's immensely useful!

I find it's also a great indicator of how well that vendor protects my info... if there's a sudden surge of spam to an address only that vendor knows, there's a chance they leaked/sold my info and I know it's time to change passwords and/or reassess my relationship with the vendor.

Yes. I knew all I needed to know about Dell's infosec when I started receiving pornographic spam addressed to [email protected] (my old vanity domain, no longer in use).

> It takes way too many clicks to report spam in GMail. Considering this is such a frequent operation, it should have a one-button "ban" function, possibly with an "Oops" undo if you pressed it by mistake.

If keyboard shortcuts are enabled, '!' is mapped to "Report as spam". I don't recall whether the status popover that appears at the bottom of the UI has an "Undo" link, though...

I should have been more precise. I meant the process of banning an email address so it can never again spam me. Doesn't work for the worst offenders who forge random source addresses, but usually does for slimy marketing departments.

You have to:

1. click on the email from the inbox

2. click on the three-dot hamburger menu on the far right of the sender line

3. click on the 'Block "Evil Sender"' entry in the popup menu

4. confirm that you do in fact want to stop receiving spam from the spammer by clicking the "Block" button

5. Click the "Move to spam" button in the dialog box that appears

Me too.

Same here. I do try to unsubscribe. I'm fine with up to 1.5 'pain points' during unsubscribing. That usually means I hit the limit after exactly 1 thing below as long as it's not taken to a point of ridiculousness:

- Logging in

- Clicking between multiple confusing tickboxes of which emails I want to unsubscribe from. Hint: If someone is actually going to the trouble to hit "unsubscribe", the answer is simply all of the bullshit non-critical emails.

- "You've been unsubscribed from Saturday morning emails sent by this particular product manager" ... implying I have to go find where to unsubscribe from all the rest of the damn emails.

But after that, or if any of these things are too onerous, I hit "spam" with a vengeance on. every. single. email. I get from that company ever again.

That said, I actually never got any Cloudflare spam at all, which is impressive.

Not everybody is using Google/Gmail/Microsoft :( I would like to point out that this attitude (do not take it personal please) helps Google became the world wide communication arbitrer. Do we want that?

Well, they're better at it than anyone else so far. Especially compared to the captured US regulators that don't do anything at all. Can spam indeed.

It's pretty easy to stop crime if you kill everyone except your close friends.

I do the same with my Tutanota account.

I believe “this person” is Cloudflare’s CTO

Nobody is exempt from nerd beatdown time on HN.

No, "this person" refers to the OP complaining here loudly enough instead of just marking as spam.

"this person" is OP.