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Also, they will endlessly re-suscribe you to their spam even after you unsubscribe.

Some months after unsubscribing from friend's posts email alerts, I changed my password to something I did not want to remember, only to be automatically re-subscribed, without notice, to their post updates.

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There's a setting I saw on Instagram about this where it will send you emails if you're inactive for too long. It's an entirely distinct setting from all other email spam. There was one setting on Instagram I would toggle, and come back two seconds later to find it retoggled, it was to suggest my account to other people to follow, I've managed to acquire like 20 follow requests from total strangers, I can't make it stop.

Something is seriously wrong with IG. I'm a programmer, this is the sorta thing if I heard from someone else I wouldn't believe, but it's fundamentally broken imho.

This is probably what it was. But I can tell you, I never saw such an option in the "unsubscribing" form.

In the case of IG:

https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/6emails...

It's under "Reminder Emails" which most people don't disable usually cause they don't think about disabling it.

I'm testing this hypothesis. I have not logged into Facebook for three months and am still getting daily emails with links to posts

If it helps, I haven't logged into FB since Jan 2018. I still get e-mails from FB about posts my friends made weeks or months ago. Never anything within the past few days though. Just now I got one for a post my friend made on Nov 28th. Not very enticing to me, lol.

I can't remember how to login to my FB account (and just don't care to try), so I just set up a spam filter to catch them and delete them. Within the first two months after I stopped logging in, I would receive 20+ e-mails a day from "friends I missed" or whatever. Now it's "only" about 3-5 a week according to spam.

What worked for me was to update my Facebook login email from my real email to my spam mailbox. Now, I don't care how much they spam me.

Unsubscribing from these emails (Facebook, Twitter, idk, doesn't matter) is a chore, they make you go through lots of hoops and then they ignore the request and keep spamming you anyway. Also, by unsubscribing you're revealing to them that you are opening and reading those emails, which is something you probably don't want to disclose.

The best solution is to simply configure a filter in your email client so those emails go to the trash directly.

Or nuke your account. I deleted my Facebook account halfway last year. Haven't received a single e-mail since.

You can't delete accounts. Only deactivate them. But if you ever log in again it all comes back up as it was before you deactivated it,

This was a huge problem for my wife because her deactivated account got hacked and then myself and all of her friends and family started getting spam.

You can delete it you just have to jump through some hoops: https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674/

Is that a new thing? I didn’t see that option when we looked and I seem to recall it was a common complaint at that time too. I wonder if that’s come about because of GDPR?

Anyhow, it’s handy to know it is there so thank you.

Facebook has a ton of dark patterns. There is always one unread message in there shitty messenger client. Except there are zero conversations because I deleted them.

And the messenger app is an incredible piece of junk, whoever did the ux with the chat heads should find a new line of work.

Hmm. What do you dislike about the Messenger app?

Always having one unread message and the stupid chat head interface.

Chat heads are the first thing I disable on every new phone.

I mostly get frustrated by features breaking and then staying broken for months. I don't know how things like not being able to expand an image or play a video you've sent are slipping past testers.

> whoever did the ux with the chat heads should find a new line of work.

Fascinating. I always wish other apps had the chat head feature as it's pretty much the only reason I still use the messenger app instead of Trillian.

These emails really have to be dealt with in your spam filter.

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