Bill Gates promised 16 years ago that the spam problem would be “solved” by 2006.
As we begin the year 2020, the pandemic of unwanted advertising is not only still a problem on email, but we’re experiencing an epidemic of robocalls, robotexts, social spam and “review spam” as well. Spam is both growing and spreading.
The trouble with spam
Email is still the world’s biggest platform for spam. Half the world’s population uses email. And more than half of all email is spam.