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[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

That's not entirely true. The push for KYC came because spam started going crazy. You have no clue how bad spam is right now. And believe me, you don't know. Take the worst case scenario you can think of, and multiply that by 100, and that starts to describe the state of spam emails for the past decade.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Did they suddenly put a stop to email spam, and no one told me? My spam folder says otherwise, but I can confirm the hit to privacy.

Maybe combating spam was just the excuse?

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 18 hours ago

My spam email gets like 10 a day instead of 900+ a day, significant improvements.