While this is a practice that infuriates me in most cases, this article is quite hyperbolic if you take just a minute to look at the examples given. Goodreads

While this is a practice that infuriates me in most cases, this article is quite hyperbolic if you take just a minute to look at the examples given. Goodreads has a long list of checkboxes, ticked by default to send you an email in the case of an event, so it looks at first glance like they'll be bombarding you. But looking through the list of events, 90% of them are both significant (involving a deliberate action of a friend of yours on one of your account posts/reviews/&c.) and relatively infrequent (extremely infrequent in the case of my own account, which I would guess actually has above average activity in the context of all Goodreads users). They should untick a few of them by default - e.g. the newsletters. However most of them make sense (unless you're of the opinion that all services should default to opt-out on all notification emails absolutely). Also - anyone not reading the entire 100% of the article is going to miss Goodreads' redeeming feature at the very end.