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there's this thing on linkedin; anytime i search for a job i will be automatically subscribed to a zillion job emails and i have to manually unsub one by one, s

there's this thing on linkedin; anytime i search for a job i will be automatically subscribed to a zillion job emails and i have to manually unsub one by one, so annoying. i guess you could put it as a kind of "taking an action as implicit permission to perform another action", although its not really implicit

bsuvc 5y ago
Quora seems especially bad about this too. You search for something, and then Quora takes that as an invitation to send you a bunch of spam. To make it worse, it seems impossible to control/prevent this through account settings. Opt-out doesn’t work. It got so bad I had to just completely block all email from quora.com. I still avoid clicking Quora links in search results because of this, even though I’ve blocked email from them. I guess it is a grudge. The bad thing is, I used to be active on Quora and enjoy its content, but something happened at some point a few years ago, where they became aggressively spammy.