The opposite is also happening: I'm increasingly classified as a "promotion" when I write to my friends. I wrote to my close friend Natalie and I was like "Did you see my email?" and she said "No" and went to search for it, and eventually found it in promotions. I'm now treated as marketing or as spam, for some of my friends. This has been going on for some weeks now.
Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
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Re: Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
#72To 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.
I have the middle of this - I have a couple Gmail adddresses/accounts. One of them is reliably getting spammed, often to the order of messages every hour some days, and has been for months. The others are all clean/getting their spam caught in the filter.
Re: Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
#73I'm having the opposite problem. The spam filter keeps marking things as spam, when they clearly are not, and I have no way of telling it that they aren't. Now, I mostly don't mind it, but getting credit reports swept off my inbox is starting to get annoying.
You can create filter rules that explicitly mark email from specific senders or with specific keywords as "never send to spam".
Re: Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
#74To 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.
I could’ve written your post (except I would’ve said 2004 instead of 2005) until a few months ago. Since then, about 10-20 of these types of emails get through the spam filter daily. I’ve had some luck creating filters after they hit my inbox, but about half of them don’t have predictable elements.
So I do believe something has changed and I wish I was still in your situation.
Re: Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
#75In the last month what services/website did you sign up for online/offline? They maybe the source of the leak/spam. Alternatively, your ID got into the spammers list via a service you must have signed up for prior, which must have got hacked recently. Another scenario is your acquaintance/friend ID must be compromised and they spam everyone on their contact list. The spammers must be keeping it under 500 emails per d…
The issue is less "how did this happen" and more that I've been reporting these obvious spam emails as spam for literally months and I still get copies of the exact same email in my inbox the next day.
I'm used to getting spam from all kinds of places, but Google's always been pretty good at having it not hit my inbox until recently.
Re: Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
#76To 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.
It is incredibly strange to hear from you (and others in this thread) who don't have a spam problem with GMail. From everyone I've talked to, it seemed endemic. From my experiences with my own account (circa 2004), GMail has moved backwards in recent years. I'd say it became a serious problem a few years ago. Marking things as spam is useless because then you immediately start getting legitimate mail marked as spam.…
It comes periodically for me - I'll get 4-5 in a week and then months or a year will go by without one.
I have manually marked a large amount of prior emails as spam, not sure how personalized the filters are.
Re: Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
#77Once every 3 or 4 months I go for a week or two getting 2 or 3 obvious spam messages a day on gmail… it is weird because they are all nearly identical so it seems like it would be trivial to round them up once I mark the second one as spam.
Re: Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
#78I get about 10 per day. They all seem to come from hacked O365/Gmail accounts. All 4 of my Gmail accounts are affected. It's all the same crap that's obviously spam. "Dear Friend, I hope this email finds you well. I need your assistance in a matter..." "You've been chosen!" "Home Depot/TruGreen/Dicks Sporting Goods/ADT-Security" "Invoice enclosed" "You've received a direct deposit..." "Hot sex " I would guess that Gm…
Yes! I'm getting around 10 Dick's Sporting Goods emails per day. It's a relief to know it's not just me.
I got one Dicks sporting goods spam and it was almost convincing because I’m pretty sure I signed up for a raffle in store recently
Haven’t been seeing any more since that one though.
Re: Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
#79Migrated to Fastmail a few weeks ago. It's going swimmingly. The private addresses feature is brilliant. I can tell what service sold my address or leaked it, or otherwise gave it out somewhere against my consent. If Gmail allowed for private aliases it would thwart spam, but they won't implement it because they're anti-privacy.
Re: Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
#80My educated guess is that Political campaigns dumped a ton of money into Google and Google is whitelisting their trash