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The solution to junk mail is aliases as SimpleLogin does. What Google does is rent seeking.

• ben_w 4y ago
  I see you've never run an email provider. Back when I was at university, 18 years ago, they told me their filters were blocking a thousand messages per day per student. At my current workplace, scammers guessed my email address in the first month. "Aliases" is a solution to neither of these situations.
  • account42 4y ago
    Reciving thousands of spam emails per user per day is ... not normal. If they weren't exxagerating then there must have some factors that saw them targeted specifically. I encoruage you to run your own mail server and publish your address on the web and see that the reality is pretty manageable without any filter.
• thephyber 4y ago
  If Google (specifically GMail) is rent-seeking, the Republican lawsuit isn't an example of it. The study Republicans cite only displayed a bias in the default training of a new email account that had never trained the spam filter: > "Shahzad said while the spam filters demonstrated political biases in their 'default behavior' with newly created accounts, the trend shifted dramatically once they simulated having users put in their preferences by marking some messages as spam and others as not," the Post article said. [1] In other words, Republican email messages are more likely to use spammy phrases. Once a user starts marking any messages as "mark as spam" or "move to inbox", the bias dissipates. This is not anywhere close to a good example of rent seeking. [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/republicans-sue-google-to-stop-gmail-from-marking-campaign-messages-as-spam/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/republicans-sue-... (money shot in last 4 paragraphs)