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Google is making big changes to prevent Gmail spam
- bell-cot 3y agoReaction I: About F*****g time! Reaction II: How long are the odd against them doing it correctly, and keeping at it as the spammers adjust their tactics? Reaction III: Unless the sender is in their Address Books, or specifically whitelisted, mail to "my" users at $Job, which matches /From: .+@gmail.com$/, will still go directly to their Spam folders.
- CTOSian 3y agoBS from google I assume: most of the spam I m getting has "unsubscribe" links on storage.googleapis.com reporting to google? well, they don't give an f , same spam email comes again and again
- jfengel 3y agoMy gmail inbox is pretty damn clean. I don't get anywhere near as much spam as I used to, even in the spam folder, by at least two orders of magnitude. I'm fairly certain they're already deleting a lot of really obvious spam without even dumping in the spam folder. I'm curious how they intend to identify "emailers who send more than 5,000 messages per day". Spammers have a long litany of techniques for avoiding being identified as the same source: hacked accounts, pwned boxes, randomized text, etc. It sounds like they're trying to do something about the legally-allowed unsolicited-commercial-email, compelling mass mailers to follow existing laws. Which is cool and all, though for the most part US companies already seem to comply. (The one exception I've found is the Red Cross, whose unsubscribe link keeps telling me I've already unsubscribed and I eventually consigned them to the spam folder.) It'll be nice to have that fixed, but I didn't realize it was a big problem. It doesn't sound like it will do much for the more serious fraud and harassment.