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this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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I guess I was lucky enough to avoid spam, but I believe you.
As for them doing it unintentionally, I dunno... They did very similar thing to Usenet as well (although in that case spam had a major part.
I think Google's way of operating is to try new things and see what sticks. Once it gets popular figure out if it can generate revenue and if it doesn't, quickly shut it down.