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Ditto. Every time I get a "Hey, you should send your father a happy birthday message!" it's a stab to the heart over someone dead over 12 years now.

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I don't get those, so there's definitely a setting you can change fwiw

Victim blaming detected.

Only if you give my comment the worst possible reading, which goes against the guidelines as you well know.

I think we can all agree that obnoxious / potentially harmful features should be off by default.

The authors of such a feature gave not more than a trifling thought to anyone's perspective but their own.

Yep, I think it's a plague and I wish we weren't here.

I was just trying to help the guy out. I didn't defend those absolute turds.

it's a shame that people have to use this crapware on daily basis.

oh yeah, he should spend his time figuring out some settings. and lucky him the behavior of that setting might change without notice, so he should also read all the terms updates and keep current on whats what.

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