this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2026
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It turns out that making a machine that is capable of determining the difference between actual legitimate messages and messages pretending to be legitimate is a really difficult problem to solve
Well we are also trusting an advertising company to filter out ads.
they have an interest in filtering out ads they weren't paid for tho
Considering that most of the difference between "wanted" and "unwanted" content depends entirely on the user, I'm surprised systems like these even work as well as they do.