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Unbaked idea: ads notification system

My email inbox is getting many promotions/ updates emails from different sources which I don't check usually. I know I can unsubscribe or sent to spam, but I tend to keep it just in case I become interested in the service again. I was thinking, why do we use our emails for almost everything, why don't we move such notifications to a different system, here comes the idea:

A service that replaces emails as a mean of communication/notification between customers/subscribers and vendors/services. Instead of filling up your email with promotions, events and updates, direct all these notifications to your inbox in that service.

Benefits for users:

  • Easy way to stop spammy emails. When not interested anymore, it is easier to block notifications from within the service instead of going through "unsubscribe" links.
  • free your email from tons of promotion emails that you don't check nor delete and fill up your inbox quickly.
  • better management of promotion notifications. For example, enable auto delete of old notifications.
  • No need to expose your email to vendors.
  • Avoid the risk of losing important emails that get sent to the promotions tab.
  • Avoid the risk of deleting important emails by mistake when you need to mass delete promotion emails.
    Basically free up your email inbox to more important/personal stuff.

Benefits for vendors:

  • your notifications go directly to customers, not put in the spam/promotions folder or left unread.
  • better stats about who is still interested in your content. Vendors can get stats about who have read their messages, clicked the link, deleted immediately, etc...

I am not sure if this service makes sense, looking forward for your feedback.

on August 11, 2022
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      Thanks for your feedback, great points. I agree it's a behavior changer and requires strong incentive.
      Yes, an advertiser wants to send ads to a place where peope visit frequently. But as a user, all promotion emails go to the promotions tab, if not to the spam folder, and I never check these. I was thinking a dedicated service would give these ads a better chance to be checked.
      As a user of emails, I am really annoyed with all the messages I get from different vendors. I used to ignore these, but now my inbox is almost full and I need to carefully delete them, or use a cleaning tool for mass deletions.