Unroll.me helps by scanning email for Lyft receipts and telling Uber whether Lyft’s business is up or down. This is what caused the commotion. My initial reaction was: Duh.

Unroll.Me’s technology crawls your inbox to identify all of your newsletters and subscriptions. It then presents you with these options in a really satisfying list format (see below).

While Unroll.me, which is owned by Slice Technologies, also claims on the very same website that its parent company “strips away personal information” (i.e. after it has passed personal data ...

Update: April 24, 2017, 12:48 p.m. This post has been updated with a link to instructions for those who wish to permanently delete their Unroll.me account. IT’S EVEN WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT.

How Unroll.me Works You sign up for Unroll.me by visiting the site, entering your email address, and authenticating access. Unroll.me works for Gmail (including Google Apps Gmail), Yahoo! Mail ...

Unroll.me launched in private beta a few months ago to help end email fatigue -- specifically that which is linked to all the email subscriptions that users sign up for and forget about. That ...

Unroll.me didn’t need to make its privacy policy 50 shades of grey to keep people from reading it, because people already don’t read privacy policies. They are long. They are squirrelly.

Those who lashed out at Unroll.me did so on Twitter, another free service that uses your data to target advertisements from third parties. Others, including Chase, use Gmail as an example to ...

Unroll.me not only unsubscribes you from the list in question, but it also creates a new rule for the sender so that future messages from that email address go straight into the trash.