31 links have been added on 9 ideas about #spam.
  1. Don’t hold your breath. Maybe they are just giving them loads of traffic and users before they buy them out. For now, you can just block them from the results, shame though. Google was the best once.

  2. If you can’t beat them? copy them

  3. In the UK, you would need to change a law in favour of people rather than business — so not going to happen. “We are legally obliged to deliver all addressed mail, which includes mail that is addressed “To the Occupier” (or with any other generic recipient information), as well as mail that is personally addressed to you by name.”

  4. Shame this didn’t take off – or at least the stickers to stop pizza people cutting trees down in the hope of selling more expensive cheese on toast.

  5. amazing, didn’t realise the Royal Mail lets you opt-out of junk mail – however only if its not addressed – huh? the spammers/scammers have already bought my address on a list some other spammers/scammers have sold them. So urr, no help.

  6. The reason it doesn’t want to fix the problem is that the company we all think of as a search engine is actually an advertising company. It made almost $137bn in revenues in 2018 – of which $116bn, or 85pc, came from ad spending.

  7. 240 answers on Quora, but google doesn’t even ask you for your interests since it killed G+. I guess it ain’t forgotten all that percy info though. So it did work, a short term social platform to get your data, then close show with it. Clever.

  8. It’s crazy Google can’t get it together to allow you to ban an email sender. All social media sites set you free from folks you don’t want to hear from – but no, they just put it in spam. how silly.

  9. You really want google to know more about you? bet it can list your interests faster than you can. it knows which sites you went to and which articles you read. That’s more than your friends know about you.

  10. They still need it to connect to a database of spam caller’s numbers though,

  11. swagbooks should let you dictate which type of ads to watch for sure, once there are enough people using it you could just watch sports ads, or just motoring, or whatever, Bound to be done properly by someone one day.

  12. Watch ads and get paid – i would if it was only my hobbies or interests, yeah, bring it on.

  13. Unless you were desperate for a job, why would you even use linkedin?

  14. Linkedin know its turned into a spam machine, they are just addicted to the advertising revenue. Probably beyond the point of return now that AI is likely to be tasked with only considering money, rather than making useful tools – like humans used to do.

  15. to see your instagram “interests” it guesses rather than just asks you… ” To get to the list on mobile, go to Settings, then Security. Go to Access Data, then scroll all the way down to the bottom, where you’ll see Ad Interests, and select “View All.” On desktop, go to Settings, then Privacy & Security. Select “View Account Data,” and you’ll find Ad Interests at the bottom right.”

  16. Instagram – you can change them, its been done, just not well.

  17. Can’t find a solution for this, not an answer machine app that lets you hit a switch to play pre-recorded replies. Why not, am I searching for the wrong thing?

  18. Anyone know if any of these answering machine apps let you record misc messages and activate the one of your choice when you receive calls from certain numbers? I need this.

  19. Instagram is using your interests in ads. but with poor results, usually – link https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/instagram-ads-interests-how-find-results-wrong-299876

  20. Crazy, even android just let you opt-out rather than put in your interests and see ads relating to them. Why don’t any of them do it?

  21. FB bides your interests a bit. Easy for advertisers to tap into though.

  22. Why don’t google allow you to add a list of your interests, so they can compare it to the interests it’s Artificial Intelligence is machine learning from you.