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Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
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We get it, you hate AI. Here, your gold star.
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#33Any ideas on how to deal with stopping spam emails in general, scripts/tools etc?
Step zero. Never disclose your email address to anyone. This is very easy and straightforward. I operate 6 Gmail accounts, and three are "alts" where I've basically never given the address out to anyone at all, and they receive zero spam, zero UCE, zero marketing emails. Of course, on my "main" I've disclosed the address to many entities and I use it for sign-in and shipping and many things. And yes, I do receive spa…
I recently had a "role" Google account terminated because I was (paraphrasing) "violating Google policies" by having multiple accounts. I didn't know they were sticklers about that.
(I don't much care because the account was just used for interacting with somebody else's Google-hosted junk but, if I had been using it for something serious, I have probably been frustrated.)
Re: Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
#34Now, what about the Messages app? Starting last December I started receiving 10 spam SMS messages a day. Previously it was maybe one per week.
Re: Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
#35See also https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/NNnDkY...
(from other threads that we merged hither)
Re: Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
#36I have seen a spam button show up I haven't seen in a long time.
It might be a new round of AI training featuring the labour of customers as free employees doing training. Every time we click, we consent to sharing private email data.
Re: Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
#37It'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).
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#38I don't understand why spam detection is so complicated. I can tell with high accuracy if an email is spam just by the subject line. I'd think even basic ML could do this very reliably you don't need a bleeding-edge LLM to do this.
Phishing is tricker because it can be very deceptive especially if you're being targeted specifically. But also usually pretty obvious.
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#39Re: Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
#40It'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).
Seriously. I didn't even realize this was a wide issue, but I couldn't find a school enrolment email I was looking for this morning, and found it in the spam folder. The fact that I basically never have to do this is actually amazing.