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JDrysdaleJr
JDrysdaleJr
Conversationalist ⭐
October 2, 2025

AARP is automatically subscribing me to newsletters. STOP IT!!!

  • October 2, 2025
  • 14 replies
  • 3528 views

So AARP has a new newsletter.  Great.  I didn't subscribe to it.  I don't want any newsletters.

 

But, here's where things get a little confusing.


I received an email from AARP asking me to "confirm [my] email subscription", giving me the impression that inaction on my part would cancel the subscription.  Nope.  I logged on to my account and first got a modal asking me to click the button to receive yet another email asking me to confirm my subscription.  I closed that out and went to my account settings, and there is was.  The new newsletter stated that I was subscribed, with a link to unsubscribe.  Link to unsubscribe, clicked.

 

                   I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS NEWSLETTER!

 

A much better way would have been to send an email saying "Hey, we have a new newsletter that we think you'll like, click HERE to subscribe!"  Don't just automatically subscribe everyone and then ask them to confirm when AARP has already "confirmed" the subscription that we didn't ask for.

 

It's assumptions that everyone wants everything that really irritate me.  Ask first.  It's just common courtesy.  Which seems to be seriously lacking, ever since COVID-19.

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    AARPConsumerCare
    Community Champion ⭐
    October 2, 2025

    I'm sorry to hear you were automatically subscribed to the newsletter, @JackD418601. Thanks for letting us know. I'll pass this information along, so we can look into it. - Brandon C.

    JDrysdaleJr
    JDrysdaleJrAuthor
    Conversationalist ⭐
    November 10, 2025

    YOU GUYS ARE DOING IT, AGAIN!!!  Received an email asking me to confirm my subscription to something I DID NOT SUBSCRIBE TO!!!  

     

     

    I'm not accepting "sorry to hear" as an answer.  THIS MUST STOP!  Announce it, ask people to subscribe, tell them it's in their best interest if you must.. BUT STOP AUTOMATICALLY SUBSCRIBING EVERYONE TO EVERYTHING!!!

    JDrysdaleJr
    JDrysdaleJrAuthor
    Conversationalist ⭐
    November 10, 2025

    I just received yet another email asking me to confirm my subscription.

     

     

    I logged on and thankfully found that I had not been re-subscribed.  But this is bovine scatology.  When does this actually STOP?

    JDrysdaleJr
    JDrysdaleJrAuthor
    Conversationalist ⭐
    March 13, 2026

    I canceled my account, but they don't have an option for pro-rating and refunding the rest.  So, I guess I'm stuck, for now.

     

    Got another freakin' email asking me to confirm a subscription I didn't ask for.

     

     

     

    AARP still can't get this fixed?  Or, maybe, AARP doesn't want this fixed, and wants to cram subscriptions down everyone's throat.

     

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