LinkedIn does this and it is annoying

Linkedin sends you notifications an emails for having other unread notifications without any additional info. It's really the worst.

"Someone viewed your profile" with a blurred photo of them.

So you know exactly who it is, but you won't just tell me in the email? I have to open the app/site so you can tick your engagement box for the day?

So glad I'm off that shit hole. It's just full of pompous picks anyway.

To this day I do not have a LinkedIn account because they have historically been the most aggressive spammers of any company. The year I graduated college, almost 2/3 of the e-mails I received were LinkedIn spam.

I recently tried disabling notification in LinkedIn. The designers and engineers working there who created the notifications settings are truly evil. You have to go through 14 categories. Some of them let you toggle the whole category at once, some don't. Some categories are split into 8 more subcategories.

I just flag as spam in my email client and it takes care of all future emails.

True.

Another worse offender is gitlab. They send promotions hidden as a part of this is obligatory account related into telling blah blah and adding BTW see these extra features for more payments.

Not just gitlab. I'm seeing this happen more and more. I'm assuming it relies on the fact that it's a nontrivial investment to file a government complaint.

"Terms of use" update emails seem to be a new way to remind you about a service too.

Or add junk to existing categories. Amazon are sending me a ton of notifications for their “Haul” shop but I have absolutely zero interest in the cheapest made shit. No way to turn off those notifications without disabling the entire category.