• surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Did they suddenly put a stop to email spam, and no one told me? My spam folder says otherwise, but I can confirm the hit to privacy.

    Maybe combating spam was just the excuse?

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      1 day ago

      If you get 100 spam emails a day, then without those protections that have been put into place that number would be in the 100s of thousands at best.

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          19 hours ago

          A few years ago I switched the mail provider for the company I work for from a small MSP provider over to Google Workspace. The reason is my boss’ inbox had an average of 5k+ of spam daily. He even had to abandon one of his email addresses at one point. After switching over to Google that number went to a more manageable few dozen daily.

          It’s absolutely a massive problem.