How to enable anti-spam protection in Android messaging app

 Pakistan has fairly strict personal data laws, yet domestic companies that access customer information do not leak information abroad. Bans, fines, and other penalties do not scare them-especially because companies have a lot of such material, the contact information of a credible person may be worth a lot of money.

This creates spam when people in organizations that aren't very interested in you start calling you, take out a loan, buy something, or invest with their help. Fortunately, you can escape from all that.

At the end of last year, Google introduced an anti-spam mechanism in its messaging app. With many manufacturers pre-installed on branded mobile phones at the factory, the news of protection kits that can get rid of unwanted messages was very popular with more people.

However, it soon became apparent that the new mechanism would only work in some countries of the world, not traditionally in Pakistan. But this week, the company released a message update with a long-awaited novelty that wasn't originally promised.

How to block spam with a messaging app

To enable spam protection, launch the messaging application and go to the context menu. 

Open the Settings section and from there go to the Advanced tab. 

Scroll through the list of available settings and select Spam Protection. 

In the window that opens, slide the enable switch to the active position next to the Enable Spam Protection line.

The spam protection engine operates completely autonomously from the operator and does not receive any information from the operator. So Google must process the entire dataset and calculate spammers on its own. According to the developer, the application recognizes spam in real time. This allows you to instantly identify malicious callers, even if the spam content comes from a previously contacted user.

In this way, you can protect yourself not only from a large number of emails, but also from XNUMX one-time emails, such as when the sender is hacked.

Spam protection mechanism

The mechanism in question works autonomously, but still requires direct user intervention. As soon as your application recognizes signs of spam content, you will be asked to see if this is the case. If a message is sent by an unknown user, you need to make sure it is spam and all future messages from this number will be blocked. Otherwise, it simply rejects the offer to classify the sender as spammer.

You can easily guess that the spammer's calculation is done by analyzing the content of the message and the sender number sent to Google's servers. Indeed, the company focuses primarily on processing messages from numbers that are not stored on the recipient's phone, so it guarantees that it will not collect any personal information.

However, this means that Google has access to the roster as well as the message. After all, for some reason you need to know that a particular number isn't on your contact list.

However, all the data analyzed by the search giant is likely to be hashed and cannot be read by active Google employees.