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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I've always said it. Best form to prevent spam is to have allow list as a default. You should only be able to receive messages from pre-approved people.

I have allow listed my email for ages and it's great.

But obviously advertisers and business hate it because then they need your true consent to send you shit.

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[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 4 days ago (1 child)

And in the case of Telegram, if they did that why would anyone sign up for their premium account?

I tried using Telegram and the amount of spam I would receive was annoying, but what was even more annoying was finding out that the 'Restrict messages from users not in your contacts' setting is paywalled. Telegram profits off of the spammers on their network.

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[–] Everyday0764@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

yep, i had that feature on, but then they paywalled it and now I'm getting some spam.

I don't really use telegram and I will dump it soon.

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