Hacker News: brandonwindson

New comment by brandonwindson in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

brandonwindson — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:10:12 +0000

Fastmail also uses global blocklists and reputation scores that can override your training. Could also be the sending IP is shared with bulk senders.

Marking as "not spam" should help over time. If it does not, create a rule to always deliver from that domain. That is the only way to guarantee it never happens again.

New comment by brandonwindson in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

brandonwindson — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:27:44 +0000

Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal stopped processing payments for adult sites that used deceptive marketing. Hosting providers terminated accounts that sent image-based spam because the legal risk was too high. The same approach would work for other spam types. Target the payment processors, the hosting providers and make spam financially unsustainable.

New comment by brandonwindson in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

brandonwindson — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:20:56 +0000

Yea, honest admins block entire regions because spam and bot traffic make it impossible to stay open

New comment by brandonwindson in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

brandonwindson — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:06:14 +0000

Spammers ignore both opt-in and opt-out, they do not care about UK or US law. That is where hosting provider enforcement matters.

New comment by brandonwindson in "Netherlands seizes 800 servers of hosting firm enabling cyberattacks"

brandonwindson — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:21:20 +0000

NL has cheap hosting, strong privacy laws, and providers that are slow to respond to abuse reports. Perfect storm for spammers.

New comment by brandonwindson in "Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back"

brandonwindson — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:43:59 +0000

Google stopped fighting spam when they realized paid ads made more money than organic relevance

New comment by brandonwindson in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

brandonwindson — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:08:36 +0000

Click rate is higher because AI removes the broken English and generic scams. But detection is not the only answer.

Most phishing comes from a small set of hosting providers that ignore reports. The real fix is making abuse reports actionable. Fix that, and you cripple the economics of phishing. AI detection is reactive; killing the source is proactive.

New comment by brandonwindson in "A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10"

brandonwindson — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:19:40 +0000

Education helps, but it puts the burden on the user. The real fix is shutting down the phishing source, not just filtering the symptom.