Weird - writing a Paypal scams article for a client (how to avoid them, not how to do them) and using Google docs because that’s what the client uses, when suddenly…

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Which is odd.

I’m guessing Google scans the documents for known spammy /scammy phrases?

Yet another reason I don’t use Google unless I have to…

@david
Well, I tried reporting a false positive to Quad9 DNS provider (new domain flagged as malware) and Protonmail did not let me send an email with that domain name, I had to contact Quad9 some other way. So I guess it's a common thing providers do.

@david @omicron Wait, ProtonMail (PM) didn’t let you send an email because it contained a suspicious link? I thought PM was E2E encrypted and had no visibility into email contents. Was the link part of the email subject?

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@ilyess
PM supports PGP and automatically enables it, if the recipient uses PGP too and you have his public key, or if the recipient uses PM too.
support@quad9 does not use PGP, so email goes out not encrypted (otherwise they won't be able to read it), and PM uses that fact to automatically scan email for spam.
After the email is sent, they store the email encrypted in your Sent folder and at no point their employee can read the email (so they say, and I have no reason to doubt).

Btw, I tested my guess by sending this email to my own email address elsewhere (also blocked), by sending to PM address (encrypted, delivered), and finally sending to my own email elsewhere but changing the link by removing TLD (the last dot and the part after it) - delivered.

@david

@omicron Makes a lot of sense. Thank you for the thorough explanation.

@david

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