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I get zero spam texts, have gotten zero robocalls in my life, and my inbox correctly sorts spam to probably less than 1 in 10000 miscategorized, meaning I effec
by alkonaut 5y ago
I get zero spam texts, have gotten zero robocalls in my life, and my inbox correctly sorts spam to probably less than 1 in 10000 miscategorized, meaning I effectively see no spam email.
This is in Europe, so is it just a regulatory difference that makes me feel that spam is a non-issue since for the last decade almost?
- jackconsidine 5y agoInteresting... nearly 200 years ago de Tocqueville remarked that European newspapers were far less littered with low-quality advertisements than the American publications.
- wutbrodo 5y agoI'm in the same boat, and I'm American. I don't really know how Gmail users manage to get non-negligible amounts of spam, given their filtering and the "Promotions" inbox auto-filter. And as far as phone calls: Do you happen to use Google Voice? I didn't even realize that robocalls had gotten so bad until a couple of years ago. I get maybe a call a month.
- guitarbill 5y agoIt is a non-issue. Unless your country doesn't regulate data-sharing, doesn't require personal information be protected, doesn't require breaches to be reported, and doesn't have real punishments in place for people who do. For example, I have gotten recruiter email spam to an email I used/gave to a company for HR communication only (luckily, it was a unique email address). Maybe a spam filter catches most of it, maybe not. It's a losing proposition to need throw-away information and spam filters for all types of information though. No filter is 100% accurate.
- inglor_cz 5y agoDepends on the size of the language community you are in, too. Chinese or English spam centers have a lot more potential marks to exploit than Slovenian or Estonian ones.