I woke up this morning to a mountain of newsletters in my primary inbox that I did not sign up for. A lot of them were for "earn money by surveys"-websites, but some were job listing pages and I even got some from regular, reputable, companies like Huggies (an american diaper company). The only common denominator I've found between all these companies is that they're US based, or the US version of the brand.

I'm not quite sure what's going on and why someone would do this, but it's not a good feeling. I started contacting companies about removing my account and associated data as per GDPR law, but truth be told I'm not quite sure if that applies. It's also way too time consuming.

This is my personal main email with gmail. I'd rather not swap, but it's hard to wade through all the unrelated crap.

Has anyone been through this before? How did you solve it? What steps should I take to protect myself?