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Not as egregious, but Twitter last week started spamming my email once a day with a “HEY YOU SHOULD SIGN IN AND CHECK OUT YOUR NOTIFICATIONS” message.

After 5 days of that I finally bothered to look. The notifications were about someone mentioning me in December.

https://i.imgur.com/MaH7EcW.png

How about not doing that?



The same thing happened to me a few weeks back when I got an email about my “twitter birthday” and how I should post something.

I just deleted my account instead.

I had the same thing happen with Facebook texting me to post after I turned all notifications off in settings, which was the final straw that got me to delete my FB account too.

Now it’s a pattern I repeat everywhere: if your site emails me, I always will click unsubscribe, and go through every possible setting you have to stop you. If you email me again, I delete my account.




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