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  • 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.


  • Op had a false positive in their spam filter, and is now posting in multiple communities as if this was a clear sign that Google is part of a conspiracy to destroy the EU.

    There are plenty of good reasons to not use Google. They’re a monopoly, a privacy nightmare and their services continually become worse in pursuit of minmaxing profits. Heck, even gmails spam filter sucking is a good reason.

    But OP had one false positive in their spam filter, and is now calling for banning Google because they’re an enemy service.

    That’s insane conspiracy theorist behavior, which was my point.


  • Taking a single false positive in your spam folder as a sign that Google has joined a campaign against the EU sounds insane.

    They literally control Google Search, Youtube, the entire Android ecosystem, have a small army of lobbyists and hundreds of billions of dollars to influence politicians, and instead of the literal millions of more effective attack vectors they have, putting .eu domains in their spam filters somehow made it onto their priority list? Really?

    Especially when the alternative explanation is simply, that Google’s spam filter had a false positive, like all spam filters have.