Microsoft Edge now has an AI-powered scareware blocker (www.theverge.com)
from cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 08 Feb 2025 01:10
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just_another_person@lemmy.world on 08 Feb 2025 01:18 next collapse

Lol. Totally unnecessary use of technology. Simple text and image hash matching would have done just fine.

imposedsensation@lemmynsfw.com on 08 Feb 2025 02:11 next collapse

If they could just do this to block the spam email

NotSteve_@lemmy.ca on 08 Feb 2025 03:04 next collapse

Yeah, what the hell is up with Outlook? My partner has an outlook email address and there’s more spam in her “focused” section than in her spam folder. It doesn’t seem like Outlook filters anything at all

potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish on 08 Feb 2025 03:50 collapse

My uni used Exchange Server which is just self-hosted Outlook, and I got upwards of 10 spam emails a day

Nougat@fedia.io on 08 Feb 2025 04:18 collapse

If they used on premise Exchange, that doesn't have any spam filtering capability on its own. You'd have to have a third party filter doing that work.

Exchange Online (M365, whatever the hell they decided to call it this month) does have spam filtering.

which is just self-hosted Outlook

In the context of email, the Outlook application is an email client, thought they do try to make it do way more than it has any business doing. You can have Outlook connect to any POP3/IMAP/ActiveSync mailbox, regardless of the mail server platform on the back end.

I think Microsoft decided to make the outlook.com email domain to consolidate branding, even though the hotmail.com domain still exists for people who are still using it from before.

pdxfed@lemmy.world on 08 Feb 2025 16:21 next collapse

The last few years watching the hype train and thinking that Nigerian prince emails, lottery winners and everything else still makes it through their pathetic email filters and they want to launch rocket ships with their omnipotent AI? GTFO

LodeMike@lemmy.today on 09 Feb 2025 02:39 collapse

Google did this and failed, epically. Thankfully they reverted it.

dabaldeagul@feddit.nl on 08 Feb 2025 02:36 next collapse

Will they use this to block their own “Chrome is dangerous and dumb and use our edge instead it’s so cool and safe” pop-ups?

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 09 Feb 2025 06:31 collapse

Hello, my name is clippy, by law I’m forced to announce when I move in the neighborhood. I live in that browser over there.