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by asdf123qweasd 614 days ago
There is malicous compliance. They can create new email categories, to which you are auto "resubscribed" - you validating that the email is used and has a reader that reads the emails and cleans his mailbox is worth a buck.

Then you hovering over topics you might be interested before unsubscribng gives away preferences.