No problem. I think that has links to everything you need. Pretty sure I gotta fill out that form too.

Okay, great, then we may proceed!

Hey, nice find, thanks!

I just checked my Gmail spam and got it as well, looks legit

https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/who-qualifies-for-68-million-settlement-over-google-assistant/

https://www.abdataclassaction.com/, kind of serious it seems.

Live and learn. Divest if possible.

Also you can filter those tags.

Serious question: then what? So you find out that some retailer sold/breached your email. What's the recourse?

This is why you use the + trick and add a tag for whatever you sign up for, then you know who's leaking your email.

Like if your email is John@gmail.com use john+tag@gmail.com where tag can be anything you want as long as the characters are valid.

I get emails purporting to be deceased contacts.

Like my uncle was a photographer, died of brain cancer a decade ago. I'll get emails using his first and last name telling me he has photos he wants to share.

People=shit... Whatchu gonna do about it?

I get about 1 every other day, on my main Gmail that I've used for 15+ years, multiple breaches. What you're experiencing is not what I'm experiencing, but who can say what the average experience is. I get so few false spam flags that I barely even check anymore.

Nah, really I use SimpleLogin for a majority of things these days and have for a few years. This is mostly just a long-lived Gmail account I've used, where I didn't always do that, and despite trying to switch over nearly all of my accounts emails to unique aliases, it doesn't stop the plethora of companies that likely never removed my old email from their systems. Ping me in a week if you want and I'll show you another 500+ spam emails, many pretending to be real companies. I just went through my spam today.

depends on the where

bet it’s tied to a forum with your registered email, selling your info

wouldn't think it would be lemmy or the like

I checked a Gmail account today I haven't checked in 2 weeks:

Most definitely it is tied to how the accounts are used.

Maybe I should stop talking about the genocide in Gaza and see if my spam decreases.

all of this is true but i have 5 spam email over 2 weeks

Honestly I don't do anything unusual with it. It's just my main account for everyday things. What is unusual is the sheer amount of cyberbreach notices I get every single year telling me almost every company and government agency I interact with has been compromised.

If you exist in modern society, data brokers likely have a massive profile on you, and those brokers are notoriously terrible at actually securing that data.

Take LexisNexis for example. Just look at the news from a couple days ago:

https://www.scworld.com/brief/lexisnexis-services-offline-due-to-unusual-activity-on-third-party-vendor-servers

And what are they doing with all this data they clearly can't keep secure? Selling it to literally anyone with a checkbook, including the government:

https://lawreview.colorado.edu/print/volume-95/lexisnexiss-contract-with-ice-as-unjust-enrichment-lizzie-bird/

ICE is literally paying LexisNexis millions of dollars for access to data to feed into Palantir's ELITE system so they can figure out which neighborhoods to target for raids.

So you've got these massive, unregulated data brokers hoarding heavily enriched profiles on us (names, addresses, primary emails, who we do business with) and selling them off to power government surveillance, only to constantly get popped or have their third-party vendors compromised. That data then gets dumped straight to scammers.

That's exactly why the phishing attacks I'm getting are so highly targeted and use real company names—the scammers already likely know what services I use because the data brokers packaged it up and failed to protect it. I'm not putting my email where it doesn't belong or signing up for shady sites. My inbox is just collateral damage in a completely broken data economy where our information leaks constantly.

what are you doing with your email?

this is not normal

Well... it is discontinued

Google are planning to grow the AI Studio suite by not releasing the AI Studio app they have not released and instead non-consent it into Gemini so that they can AI a much larger population who do not want that app or the apps that that app making app makes.

Don’t they usually wait until a product becomes popular before they kill it?

So strange. Im using open ai on ha and it hasn't been great. Maybe I try gemini ironically

"Finally"!

Its interesting, I have the HA Voice Preview and I've been trying out using Gemini as the brains. Yes I know this defeats the point, but it's an experiment and I wanted to see how the normal Flash model handles things.

It works great, nearly perfect. So whatever they have done to lobotomize their existing devices/assistant over the last year or so is not just Gemini being bad at it.