Email was always supposed to be federated and accessible to everyone. It’s what the Internet was meant to be. But now, what we have is a few big companies holding the reins of the Internet in their hands.

It’s interesting how the email space is essentially a duopoly between Google and Microsoft now. Microsoft and Google attempt to weed out spam the best they can, and impact people that run their own mail servers, all in the attempt of helping keep email inboxes free of spam.

But if they’re failing at that now, I wonder if they really should be allowed to alienate smaller mail servers from even being able to send emails to folks who have email addresses at Google or Microsoft.

Whoa, not good. Looks like more online accounts may get hacked from phishing with this increase of spam emails slipping through. I know a Youtuber that very recently got their Youtube account hacked & stolen from a phishing email sent to their Gmail. Luckily they got their account back, but I believe it was due to the help of their friends & audience on Youtube, as they were told by Google that most people who get their channel stolen like that don’t get it back. I’m glad I use Proton Mail for my main email account. Its spam filter is robust.

Using outlook (hotmail) I’ve had a grand total of one spam email make it to my inbox this year. All the rest has landed in the spam folder.

I can’t think of anything that’s been incorrectly flagged as spam either…

I get far more spam calls and texts than I do email spam. Android filters out spam sms pretty well, but not much I can do about calls (especially with spoofed local area codes). Just pick up, wait for a ‘hello’ from a person and immediately hang up when text-to-speech starts babbling at me instead.

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My Gmail inbox is mostly fine, tbh. Most spam seems to get trapped in the default filters without much issue.