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It's not planned for at the moment but will definitely look into it in the near future.

But just in case you use any of these browsers, it works on other chrome-based browsers aside from Chrome: - Brave - Opera - Edge - Opera GX

The version with the fix has been approved and it's now live. Clicking the sender email should show you all emails sent by the sender now. Let me know if you have any issues. Happy to help!

Thanks!

I used https://screen.studio/ for the showcase videos and for the YouTube video I used a combination of Canva/Eleven Labs + Some manual mouse zooming

We store stats like "unsubscription count" and "deletion count". Your emails do not need to leave your device for that data.

I totally understand. Unfortunately, that particular statement was required by Google OAuth verification team to verify InboxPurge. I'll figure out a way to make it clearer. Thank you.

I'm sorry if you felt like I was intentionally missing the point.

I've added edit to explain why that particular statement is in the privacy policy

It's technically not possible from InboxPurge's perspective. As there'd be no email information to share.

I've added edit to explain why that particular statement is in the privacy policy

It's technically not possible from InboxPurge's perspective. As there'd be no email information to share

I already explained in a reply:

"All these processes happen on your browser(device). The extension uses the Gmail API locally on your browser to perform all the necessary tasks. Your emails never get sent to any external server."

Hope you give it a try.

All these processes happen on your browser(device). The extension uses the Gmail API locally on your browser to perform all the necessary tasks. Your emails never get sent to any external server.

I hope that answers your question.

Edit: Just to add more context. The Google Oauth verification team requires that statement in the privacy policy.

The extension lists the mailing lists you're subscribed ordered by the frequency (the amount of emails the sender has sent), does that handle your usecase?

Thank you!

Yes this is the actual working flow. When you click on a sender it should show the emails sent by that sender. Unfortunately, at the moment there's a bug. I'm waiting for a Chrome store review approval for the version with the fix to be published.

I will reply here once it's approved

I might be misinterpreting your question but I'll try to explain further, hopefully it makes sense:

So the way most email cleaning tools work is:

- Scan your emails for all your subscriptions - via Gmail API - Each subscription has a link, that link is what is used to unsubscribe the link can either be in the email header or email body - This can be a POST request or a GET request, in some complex cases a mail send to unsubscribe - With this link for each mailing list, mass unsubscription can happen

So the main difference here is, other tools do this on the third-party servers. InboxPurge does this on your browser/device (specifically the email scanning bit). Making HTTP requests to the Gmail API from your device.

Yes, it's also possible to build a browser extension that does this on a third-party server.

*Other things happen depending on the email cleaning tool but I've tried to simplify to explain better.

Hope it was helpful.

You can find the list of browser permissions a Chrome extension can request for here: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/manif...

Tbh I didn't really consider this approach as I didn't think it was possible (that's if it is). Also I'm not so comfortable with hijacking authentication session. I very much prefer making the user actually grant permissions to the required scopes and making it clear what the access is used for.

It's free for up to 20 mailing list unsubscribes/deletes per month. You only have to pay if you want unlimited access. It's made clear on the landing page. Sorry if 20 was not enough for you.

Cool!

Yes it's pretty similar. There just some minor API differences. e.g

Chrome - chrome.tabs.query(queryInfo) Firefox - browser.tabs.query(queryInfo)

So you could easily port any firefox extension to chrome and vice-versa using the same codebase.

Thank you

At the moment the extension's side bar shows mail count per sender, not domain. You can also order from highest to lowest. Does that suffice for you?

You're right Gmail does not show the datasize clearly, but to get emails with large attachments, you can use search filters like: "larger:15M", where 15M is 15 megabytes. It's not exactly what you want but might help

Thank you!

Oh interesting, didn't know this

"Locally" here means, calls to the Gmail API are triggered directly from your browser(device) not on any third-party servers.

I totally understand your concern. Unfortunately, to perform those actions(unsubscribe/delete etc..) on your behalf while using the API, those "intrusive" permissions are required. If it wasn't needed, Google oauth verification team would not have approved.

I tried to explain the usage for each permission here: https://www.inboxpurge.com/permissions

Filters only affects new incoming emails. If that's your intention, then that works perfectly. Of course this also means you never want to see a newsletter in your Inbox.

In cases where you want to mass delete older emails that you previously subscribed to, you might find InboxPurge useful.

I assume you've answered your question but just to explain further:

So generally in order to actually help you mass unsubscribe from unwanted emails, most email cleaning tools handle your email data on their server. The process of parsing email data to fetching unsubscribe links or unsubscribe instructions etc..

So there's a trust problem where some tools have been caught selling user data: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/technology/personal-data-...

So the goal here with InboxPurge is to move all these processes related to your email data to your device(browser), ensuring your privacy.

Thank you! I appreciate. I'm happy to help if you have any questions or feedback.

Oh that's cool!

As at Febuary, Gmail introduced new guidelines for bulk email senders to make it easy unsubscribe from by adding a value for "List-Unsubscribe"

https://support.google.com/a/answer/81126?hl=en&visit_id=638...

So unsubscribing is simply a POST request to the value of this email header (List-Unsubscribe) - which is a link and comes as part of the email headers in the Gmail API response

The alternative approach is to parse the content of the email and use regex to get the unsubscribe link using the likely words. e.g links with words like: unsubscribe, opt-out etc..

Yes, Gmail has the unsubscribe functionality. Unfortunately, you cannot mass unsubscribe. If you have over 100 unwanted subscriptions you would have to unsubscribe from each one at a time.

Hope that helps you