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I don't believe this argument for a second. Google almost single-handedly solved the problem of email spam a decade ago. And yet, robot accounts are a problem?
by TheKarateKid 5y ago
I don't believe this argument for a second. Google almost single-handedly solved the problem of email spam a decade ago. And yet, robot accounts are a problem?
For the company that loves encouraging obnoxious Captcha's to self-fund their AI/ML research and data harvest the web, they surely don't seem to like using it on their own platforms.
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- andrewflnr 5y agoGoogle's spam blocking is showing cracks, too.
- ChrisLomont 5y ago>Google almost single-handedly solved the problem of email spam a decade ago Google still has to routinely invent new techniques to stop spam. This problem is not solved - it's an ongoing arms race. It is also a vastly easier problem - spam filters at google scale work because they see the same spam across zillions of accounts. This is not the case for youtube, where a spammer provides them with far fewer samples, and those are across a much wider space. These problems are barely related.
- Tijdreiziger 5y agoRecently, comment sections of popular YT videos are littered with bots spamming links accompanied by phrases like 'hot girls' and '18+ only'. They're everywhere, and this really doesn't strike me as an inherently hard problem to solve. (In fact, I wonder who these spammers are targeting. Surely the average YT user is smart enough to recognize blatant spam?)
- mrguyorama 5y agoCheck this video by linus tech tips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo_uoFI1WXM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo_uoFI1WXM Some random dude built an anti youtube comment spam tool. Youtube could absolutely fix this problem, they just don't care
- c-cube 5y agoGoogle single-handledly solved the problem of how to send legitimate emails from other providers into the spam box. In effect, non gmail emails are second class.
- kaba0 5y agoJust an anecdote but quite recently it seems to be much less reliable at catching spam.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y agoYup, they nailed it! Where before I had to check one Inbox folder, I now need to check two - Inbox and Spam. Because half of legit emails end up in spam now. And no, I am not researching internet daily about manhood enlargement.
- labster 5y agoWith a score of 13.7, the parent comment has been automatically flagged as spam. 5.7 - restricted terms 8.0 - username looks like base64 Maximum score is 10.0
- marcosdumay 5y agoYou mean they decided to use advanced spam filters that were already used by small sites before other large sites decided to care about the problem? On some cases, a couple of weeks before. Gmail has the worst spam filter of any email provider I use today, excluding the one email server I have running on my domain that gets almost no email and has no filter. Or, well, spam filtering is a lesser problem on my server too because it doesn't block nearly all the email that I care about.
- boring_twenties 5y agoI am unsure how to take the assertion that Google has "solved" spam. 80-90% of the emails in my "Spam" folder are not spam. It's worse than no filtering at all, since I still get exposed to the spam, but now I have to check two inboxes instead of just one, and then jump through annoying hoops to view images or access links in the second one.
- 1_player 5y agoOn my Fastmail I have the opposite problem. Spam gets filtered correctly, but 90% of the spam I receive is from gmail.com accounts.