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Google Gmail now filters email from EU to spam, which is deleted after one month (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I received mail from eures.europa.eu to Gmail for years before Google's new "be evil" act.

Ban Google in EU. Don't let citizens use enemy services in a cold war.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

At the vert least a company this size investing this much money into all kinds of bullshit should be capable of knowing that emails from europa.eu are not spam.

If this is incompetence rather than bad intent, it's just another piece of solid evidence that Google has lost its way and now sucks more than it's competition. Not that anyone would be surprised to learn that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Spam filters don't and should not have some global default whitelists that bypass all protection. One simple reason would be that someone's account is compromised and it sends out malicious mail.

I have seen Microsoft Defender spam filter detecting legitimate Microsoft mails as spam. It's just how spam filters work, there always can be false positives.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How would they know that europe.eu is a legitimate government website? Anyone can register a .eu domain. If it ever expires, anyone can buy it. And even if they built a team that whitelists government websites, do you really want to have spam from them whitelisted? What if they get hacked, what if they use spam for military disinformation campaigns.

My point being: One email doesn't even tell you if their service sucks. Much less that Google is an enemy service and must be banned.

There are plenty of reasons to not use Google. There are even a bunch of reasons to ban Google. One false positive in their spam filter is not one of them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Also OP is a dummy and probably marked one of these mails as spam without noticing so it's now throwing all of them away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Every subdomain under europa.eu belongs to EU institutions.