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Detecting identical snippits of text is beyond virtually no one's abilities.



Yeah, I subbed to the blocklist that someone else published that they're maintaining manually. Google certainly has the resources to beat that bar.

It feels like economy-wide that decision makers in corporations and governments have just arrived at the conclusion that there's no money / no point in trying to stop scammers (and there might be an actual cost to revenue of doing so). It won't goose their quarterly numbers and might hurt them so its better to allow it.




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