#Medium: Hi! Thanks for visiting. You have to create a free account to read this article.
Me: [creates account]
Medium, 5 minutes later: Thanks for creating your account! Here's some #spam.
Me: [unsubscribes]
Medium, a day later: Ha! You only unsubscribed from one kind of spam, here's a different one.
Me: [unsubscribes]
Medium, <a day later: Ha ha! Here's another kind of spam.
Me: [clicks unsub link, this time it goes to a settings page with a global toggle which I turn off]
#TechIsShitDispatch
@jik and the pattern now seems to be Provider: But of course when we add some new category we will auto subscribe you (so their trackers will get refreshed both as most read that spam and when they login to unsubscribe all again.) Every interaction counts as en{g,r}agement