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jwrtoday at 9:33 AM2 repliesview on HN

I gave up on trying to report abuse to Google, Amazon or Microsoft. It seems reports simply get ignored and the big providers do nothing. I hope the FSF with its weight and media presence can finally do something.

Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are my major sources of spam. These days, this is where spam comes from.

At this point, they are also too big to block. We allowed this to happen, through neglect and laziness. Even in this discussion: how many people use Gmail as their primary email service?


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alpaca128today at 10:01 AM

On YouTube I reported bot accounts for a couple days, the only reaction I got was that at some point it showed a popup that told me too many false reports would lead to a ban. Not sure what Google gets out of it, but there is no way they could be that bad at fighting bots unless they're not even trying. Even trivial tricks like copy-pasted texts keep working.

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noosphrtoday at 10:52 AM

Not me, but then most people are allergic to paying $10 a month.

I figure an email is worth a beer.