Quick Question: Auto Subscribe

I had a situation where i created a new category to test something and for some reason out of my 800 subscribers ~120 of them were also subscribed to that category.

I assume its because of an autosubscribe option being selected.
Am i right in saying that if in the optoins is select “No” for the

Option for Registered Users to auto-subscribe to new categories is checked by default:

and

Registered Users have the option to auto-subscribe to new categories:

Any advice here

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