At any rate it's not much of a defense. Their "legitimate" marketing in no way absolves them for their "illegitimate" marketing.
I think we are in general agreement here.
Spending a lot of money on legitimate marketing certainly doesn't absolve scammy tacticts at all.
One of my more recent pet peevees is their fiddling with GMail in a way that a lot of mails from external sources are flagged as spam. Even though they're sure as shit and very obviously not. And not only that. They're constantly moving the goal posts on what is "legitimate" mail.
Having such a big slice of global email this is super scummy and I really hope that (probably European, if any) regulators crack down hard on them yet again.
I think we are in general agreement here.
Spending a lot of money on legitimate marketing certainly doesn't absolve scammy tacticts at all.
One of my more recent pet peevees is their fiddling with GMail in a way that a lot of mails from external sources are flagged as spam. Even though they're sure as shit and very obviously not. And not only that. They're constantly moving the goal posts on what is "legitimate" mail.
Having such a big slice of global email this is super scummy and I really hope that (probably European, if any) regulators crack down hard on them yet again.
But I'm digressing here, I'm afraid.