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The email bothers me a little. What bothers me a lot is that there's an active account attached to my email address with dozens of companies I did not choose t
by NikolaNovak 3y ago
The email bothers me a little.
What bothers me a lot is that there's an active account attached to my email address with dozens of companies I did not choose to engage with. It as astonishing how few companies allow you to disavow an account created with your email (practically none. I don't have an instagram myself but my email account does.)
Marking their emails as spam just means I will no longer know what's being done "in my name" (with my email address). It doesn't aftually solve an issue in any real way.
- hedora 3y agoYou could always email the company, or just validate the email, reset the password and delete the account. The latter is risky though; some sites use email validation as proof they should attest to the real world identity of the person that owns the account. (Github is one such example). I imagine some site does that and also does not ensure that access to the email address is enough to reset the password and 2FA setup. (Come to think of it, Github is also an example of this.) Either way, common courtesy would dictate waiting a week or so between emailing and nuking the account.