What else do you want from that email? You got a new subscriber. There's their name. Why change the layout just for the sake of change? Surely there are people having rules or automations tied to them, why brake them? Just for funsies?
Mildly Interesting
This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
Just post some stuff and don't spam.
They took out the "report spam" button. Presumably that's because Google's whole business model in 2024 is delivering spam in all its various forms.
What was even the purpose of that button? Surely if you get spam, you don't report that to the spammer, you use the mechanism provided by your email service.
It was to report a bug in their email system involving unwanted emails (for instance if they continued sending you email after you unsubscribed from it).
Yep, I noticed that as well. Google has diversified to another industry though recently: AI spam.
I've heard that if you want to sit through their Copyright violation series, they still use Happy Tree Friends videos they commissioned. At least I saw some show that about two years ago
Yep. And I know that from experience.
Other google things that haven’t changed in several eons include:
- Basically anything to do with reporting anything
- The email google sends you when you report an ad (from about 2013-2015, it looks like)
- Anything to do with reporting malicious web pages (that stuff hasn’t changed since 2007, you can check it out at https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/ for the main page and https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_general/ for the Firefox/IE toolbar they haven’t had in years if you want)