A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him for It

Re:A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Ba... by johnea on Thursday December 11, 2025 @06:22PM (#46238761)

So, given your high technical acumen, why would expose yourself to goggle's previously demonstrated willingness to delete your career's and your life's archive of communications?

Stop using goggle!

It's as simple, and as necessary, as that.

No technically astute person should use ANY goggle services at this point...

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Re:A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Ba... by lynndotpy on Thursday December 11, 2025 @06:57PM (#46239094)

I'm not the person in the OP, I've been completely de-googled since 2019 and I agree that Google should not be trusted for anything important.

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Re:A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Ba... by brokenmachine on Friday December 12, 2025 @12:37AM (#46241196)

Gmail is the only thing I wouldn't be able to replace.

I've read it's almost impossible to run your own email server without getting blocked by all recipients in 2025.

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Re:A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Ba... by jenadine on Friday December 12, 2025 @04:33AM (#46242419)

I'm running my email server on some famous VPS provider, and with properly configured server (SPF, DCIM), I didn't really get any problems sending emails.

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Re:A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Ba... by lynndotpy on Friday December 12, 2025 @02:58PM (#46248113)

I don't self-host everything. For example, I use Fastmail with custom domains. I think this spreads the risk.

Unfortunately, Google has a policy of "greylisting" domains it had not yet seen, so this increases friction with people on Google. I'm not even running my own email server :(

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