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You can unsubscribe from all LinkedIn email, but you'll still get email for any new category they invent later. So I keep having to do this every few months. For example: "endorsements" became a thing and suddenly I had to turn that pointless spam off too.

I expect they'll invent a new product which involves opting everyone in.



They confirmed this to me a few months ago https://twitter.com/ketralnis/status/364861501590339584

Me: surely there's a way to just say "don't ever email me ever for any reason, not even for future newsletters you make up"

Them: Unfortunately that would mean adding you to our Do Not Contact list, however if you have an active acct we are not able to add u


Twitter does this (automatically subscribes you to each new category of email) as well, and it infuriates me to no end.


They also started sending me push notifications telling me that people that I follow started following other people. I have no idea why they think I'd want to know that. It took probably ten minutes with their app to figure out how to disable that.


Please reveal what it is you did to disable those notifications.




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