Does anyone actually think this is endorsement? At this point Google is the 2022 version of 1998 Microsoft. Big, slow, and dumb. We all know we're getting fucked by them yet not hard enough to quit yet. Soon.
It's almost like saying "Donald Trump's presidency was just like Josef Stalin". Sure, there are bad things but if you seriously look at what was going on, there was just a whole different level of badness.
Doesn't sound like an endorsement to me. They needed 150k email-only licences to bridge until they can replace contract they buy the rest of their Office 365 licenses on. Google showed up with an bid they couldn't refuse. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a loss-leader for Google (or an "investment", as we call in the defense business).
You go to make a car or flight reservation, enter all kinds of info including your credit card, and then bam, it says "Oops, something went wrong, try again later". Or an e-commerce site asks you to enter your email and they'll send you a confirmation code, but the confirmation email never comes.
I've determined by experiment--using a different IP but a Gmail email address--that a frequent cause is a secret bias against commercial email services. It's particularly infuriating because I think a commercial email user with a paid account is a much lower fraud risk than a free Gmail user.
If it’s one of their domains, not sure, but I’d guess their free accounts originate a bunch of garbage due to the nature of their service.
I don't believe for a second that protonmail generates more spam than gmail.
I mean, there’s some reason you’re being sent to spam. And it’s not anything about PM’s configuration, they use solid defaults that should make default spam filters happy.
I’ve never even gotten a spam email from someone using Proton Mail. It’s always people that are very serious about privacy and always a human.
In my personal life I almost never use email for communication, it is prominent in business for now but even that is shifting