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Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?

#1
In the last 2 weeks my gmail inbox went from zero spam to at least 2/3 spam/phishing emails per day on the inbox. I'm marking them as spam but nonetheless it keeps happening. I'm wondering if because spam traffic increased and spammers found a new way to trick anti-spam or if gmail engineers changed something on their end. Is anyone experiencing the same?

Not a big deal as it's been almost a year I'm migrating off gmail and I'm keeping it only for a few things, but still annoying

Re: Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?

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They announced that their spam filter got to good and that they will allow political spam to go around their spam filter. https://www.androidpolice.com/gmail-political-spam-experimen...

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32915287

Re: Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?

#10
To offer a singular data point, contrary to other posters here, I am not seeing this at all, and I pretty actively use my two Gmail addresses which have been active since 2005. My spam inbox regularly gets correctly categorized spam, and important emails still correctly land in my inbox.
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