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.

    • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • al4s@feddit.org
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        2 months ago

        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.

    • Tehdastehdas@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      My Gmail, and I forgot to screenshot because I’ve learned to hit the “not spam” button by reflex like swatting a mosquito.

      • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 months ago

        So email from one EU domain got filtered for you, and you concluded that every email from the EU is being filtered for everyone, on account of being from the EU? Am I understanding this right?

        • Tehdastehdas@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I assume there’s one filter for the whole Gmail doing the same for everyone. For the sabotage to be allowed to continue, it has to be plausibly deniable, so it’s probably doing a little bit of this and that randomly for different people.

          • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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            2 months ago

            Can you think of any other possible and more likely explanation for them being filtered, other than “the entire EU is being filtered by Google”?

            If you wanted evidence that the entire EU is not being filtered, what would that evidence look like?