HACKER Q&A
📣 csomar

How does LinkedIn evade SPAM?


I continuously mark Linkedin emails as SPAM. They start getting caught in the SPAM box (Fastmail) but after a while, I start receiving them again in my inbox. I, then, proceed again to mark them as spam but it takes at least a couple dozen for them to be recognized as such.

I have two questions:

1. What is it that Linkedin does to keep resurfacing to my inbox?

2. How come Linkedin is not penalized for the atrociously enormous quantities of spam it sends? (either by mail processors or by the authorities). I have lost count of how many times I have turned notifications off.


  👤 codingdave Accepted Answer ✓
Have you gone into your settings and turned off email notifications?

There are a pile of preferences under: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/categories/notifica...

If those are turned on, then you have not opted out, so it isn't spam.

(And yes, feel free to rant about opt-in by default, and just how many places you need to turn things off. I'm not saying LinkedIn is reasonable about this... just saying that under the status quo, you need to take some initiative to control it.)


👤 YaBa
It's not spam, you've accepted the terms when registering. Now, you need to shut it off in Linkedin itself, not in the e-mail provider.

Real spammers don't give you an option to opt out, some even include fake "unsubscribe" option, which in reality, only confirms to them that the e-mail is active and valid.


👤 Raed667
you can create a rule based on sender so you can manually move it to spam folder instead of relying on fastmail detection