Google's spam filter is having a moment. Even emails with perfect auth records are getting flagged - clearly a broken model deployment.
Mark legitimate emails as "not spam" aggressively. They'll either rollback or your local filter will adapt. This happens every 6-12 months with Gmail.
Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
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#112Not just you, widespread reports on /r/gmail and Twitter since ~12 hours ago. Likely a bad model push on Google's end.
Workaround: check spam folder for legit mail, mark as "not spam" + star important senders to retrain your filter faster. Usually resolves in 24-48h when they rollback.
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#113Briefly, this morning, I had the opposite effect happen to my Gmail inbox in which things that would normally land in the social and updates folders ended up in my primary folder. I don't know which I'd be more freaked out by: a broken Gmail spam filter or 18 inches of snow.
This. Same, got a lot of spam getting to my inbox this morning.
That. Why in 2062 are so many people still reduced to merely describing what happens, and have no power to fix it themselves? These big corporations can roll out anything and we’ll all roll over and take it. Neuralink 7.0 completely changed everyone’s personality and people bitched for a while but ultimately no one can do anything about it. They promised to bring back choice of features but it’s been a decade and so far just more enshittification
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
And yet, if you're communicating with someone else who does the same (or uses a niche hosted provider), that entire conversation is outside their "data lake".
Yes, but such people are so rare that they're functionally non-existent. I certainly don't know even one.
And this is why I take more and more of what I do offline
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#115Briefly, this morning, I had the opposite effect happen to my Gmail inbox in which things that would normally land in the social and updates folders ended up in my primary folder. I don't know which I'd be more freaked out by: a broken Gmail spam filter or 18 inches of snow.
Yes, me as well. Thought I had mistakenly changed something but I hadn't. Have also noticed that ad blockers stopped working last week; now as well as the wrong routing in Gmail, that casting to Chromecast from Chrome stopped working today. Good job Google!
Also, I went into spam and check and moved a few convos out - and when I did, the message said, literally, ‘(null) conversations moved’…
Vibe coding catching up on us all?
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#116It's a great reminder of how good this feature is that we take for granted. I think this outage has actually improved my appreciation for Gmail (a service I normally only complain about).
FWIW, the feature works just as well for me with my FM inbox (I still have my old gmail address and check both spam and the inbox once in a while).
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#117I disabled google's spam filter years ago for this sort of issue. The final straw was that it flagged a response from my boss, to an email I had sent earlier that day, resulting in a missed meeting.
Installed thunderbird to access the company mail, never looked back. Private gmail is unused, only ever created it for android sign-up back in the day.
As with search, I don't get why people still use google.
Re: Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
#118Briefly, this morning, I had the opposite effect happen to my Gmail inbox in which things that would normally land in the social and updates folders ended up in my primary folder. I don't know which I'd be more freaked out by: a broken Gmail spam filter or 18 inches of snow.
This. Same, got a lot of spam getting to my inbox this morning.
Me too!
And a load of fake DMARC setup confirmation emails for a domain I own.
Re: Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
#119Briefly, this morning, I had the opposite effect happen to my Gmail inbox in which things that would normally land in the social and updates folders ended up in my primary folder. I don't know which I'd be more freaked out by: a broken Gmail spam filter or 18 inches of snow.
I had the opposite effect in that I'm only getting spam to my inbox.
Or maybe someone really is reaching out to urgently tell me all about "legal boner tea."
Re: Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
And yet, if you're communicating with someone else who does the same (or uses a niche hosted provider), that entire conversation is outside their "data lake".
Yes, but such people are so rare that they're functionally non-existent. I certainly don't know even one.
Apart from self-hosting, you can choose a non-big-corp email service, which happens more often. Quite a few of my emails never get to big corps.