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		kirill5pol on Jan 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 o... I have recently been getting straight up spam (“you won 1 million dollars!” type) as ads in Gmail. No idea how these managed to show up when these would have been easily marked as spam if it was an email.

jtbayly on Jan 4, 2021 [–]

So would 99.9% of ads. In fact, that’s what spam is—an ad.

The difference is that Google got paid for one and not the other. Pay them the protection money, and they’ll let you through.

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