That's why I only use Gmail for website signups. It's very unreliable for any emails that you depend on.
Meanwhile I get spammed 100s daily from asian job posting systems that I mark as spam/unsubscribed and they still come through. Apparently it's all a scam to show need for H1B visas?
The term you're looking for is 'Horizontal Conduct' and it's illegal. The hard part of course is making that claim against the team of lawyers that Google would be able to field.
Could someone please ELI5 this? I get the overall concept but I don't really understand why doing this is convenient for them.
Here's another fantastic article related to this. It's about someone who's had to give up on selfhosting.
It's actually far worse than the Igregious article makes it look.
Email is a relict of a bygone era and needs to die. It's not designed for the modern Internet, and no patching like DKIM and DMARC can fix that.
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