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Spam inflates numbers and ends up benefiting nearly everyone except the end user in the short-term: - Platforms benefit from larger activity volume, thus incre
by BowBun 3y ago
Spam inflates numbers and ends up benefiting nearly everyone except the end user in the short-term:
- Platforms benefit from larger activity volume, thus increasing their numbers and $$$
- FTC and other regulatory bodies get to take low-effort actions and tout the massive effects, ignoring the fact that they're slapping the ocean with a stick.
- All the systems in between are charging each other for artificial traffic, resulting in a convenient ponzi-like situation. I wouldn't be surprised if large chunks of vendor (SendgridTwilio, cloud providers, etc.) revenues are from illegitimate business.
- wpm 3y agoI imagine a similar thing is happening in the phone space too. Scam calls are 99% of the calls I get on my cell phone now, and probably close to that for "revenue from calls" that the providers are raking in. If I could spin up my own cell network like I could an email server and a domain, you bet that the big cell/telecom players would "blacklist" my domain for "spam" the moment they caught whiff and instantly make it almost useless, same as Gmail does.