Over the years I have repeatedly been tripped up by the fact that Newegg‘s checkout form has a mailing list subscribe checkbox which they randomly check by default, so if you forget to uncheck it you get subscribed. I have been subscribed to their list against my will over and over because of this. It’s frankly a mystery to me why they don’t remember when people have unsubscribed and stop resubscribing them, but I guess they think it earns them more in revenue than it drives away in pissed-off customers.
Anyway, now Tampermonkey will uncheck the box for me so I don’t have to remember.
The script is published on Greasy Fork. Here it is here as well:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Uncheck Newegg Subscribe
// @copyright 2025 Jonathan Kamens
// @license MIT
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 2025-02-11
// @description Uncheck the checked-by-default Newegg subscription checkbox at checkout
// @author You
// @match https://secure.newegg.com/shop/checkout*
// @icon https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=newegg.com
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
let label = document.getElementsByClassName("form-checkbox")[0];
if (! label) return;
let input = label.getElementsByTagName("input")[0];
if (! input) return;
let title = label.getElementsByTagName("span")[0];
if (! title) return;
if (! title.innerText.includes("Subscribe")) return;
input.checked = false;
})();
