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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by giancarlostoro on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @07:50AM (#18864312)
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.

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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by 2sk21 on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @07:53AM (#18864330)
I'm testing this hypothesis. I have not logged into Facebook for three months and am still getting daily emails with links to posts
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by LeftTurnSignal on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:27AM (#18864858)
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.

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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by Consultant32452 on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @10:33AM (#18865413)
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.
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by helloguillecl on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @07:53AM (#18864327)
This is probably what it was. But I can tell you, I never saw such an option in the "unsubscribing" form.
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by giancarlostoro on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @08:03AM (#18864369)
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.

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