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"Regardless of account deletion attempts"? Seriously? First step of account deletion is, that Facebook deactivates the account, therefore, they should also know better to not send notifications. Why would they burden the user with notification settings, when the users wish/intent is clear enough? Spamming them with unwanted notifications is unethical behavior.

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Yes, seriously. They made it pretty clear that _their account was still active_. That's why it's "regardless": it doesn't matter for the situation at hand.

> when the users wish/intent is clear

How is it clear? Their whole post is stating that all they did was not use the site for a bit.

Given that they have an active account and notification are set to notify, why would they ever assume you no longer want notifications? They could very well want all of those notifications (since they have them turned off), so not sending them would actually be the exact opposite of what it should do.

This would be like if my post office stopped delivering my mail because I didn't call them up and tell them to keep delivering my mail.

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