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Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by NegativeLatency on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:39AM (#32239794)
We didn’t solve e-mail spam
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by OJFord on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:49AM (#32239913)
Unless you mean 'so we should jail more of them', GP's making the same point. (Not 'I didn't get where I am today by' tone as I initially read it and suspect you may have.)
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by NegativeLatency on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @12:05PM (#32240121)
No, not suggesting jail, just lamenting I get daily spam through my gmail and other email accounts. Not to mention the recruiter spam that would be basically impossible to stop.

Robocalling seems like a much more tractable problem to solve though.

Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by encryptluks2 on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @12:50PM (#32240748)
I believe email spam and Robocalling should both be subject to harsh punishments, even more so if it is sexually explicit spam being sent to minors.
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by akimball on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @08:56PM (#32245830)
If you murder someone, you go away. If you rob 100 million people of 0.00001% of their life, you just did the equivalent of 100 murders. Seems no less criminal to me - in fact more so.
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by fallingknife on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @02:01PM (#32241605)
Seems pretty solved to me, at least for hard spam. The soft spam of useless marketing messages from companies that do have a legitimate reason to have my contact info is a harder problem.
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by paintman252 on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @04:05PM (#32243268)
We actually did. My gmail get's none
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by thaumasiotes on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @04:29PM (#32243551)
But gmail accomplished that by refusing to deliver legitimate mail too. It's worse than the spam floods we used to have.
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by NegativeLatency on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @04:30PM (#32243569)
My gmail regularly gets spam