They can just send you links and hack ya anymore its pretty nuts. Google has a similar problem. Anyone with your email can send you spam directly to your calendar and drive storage. Its something they knew of for years but only made upgrades that further encouraged it by taking away options to prevent it😆
Using Steem in the past and now Hive these problems are 10x more prevalent. I cant wait to get a more secure device and way to use Hive.
That's crazy, typical google though. They don't solve an issue they make it worse or make ways that fixing it ends up costing money for the user lol.
Thankfully I don't have Steem associated to my gmail account, I've got one for proton mail which makes it easiest to keep the BS at bay.