I have been having this problem for at least a few months, when obvious spams by human eyes can get into my inbox daily. For example, I have to use gmail filters to remove the car dealership spams.
Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
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#102The 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.
I've had a few emails in the last year that were clearly shipping confirmations with tracking numbers etc. that got classified as promotions
Re: Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
#103To 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'm not getting as much as the OP, but I'm getting 1-3 obvious spam emails in my inbox a week, whereas it was once a month if ever before.
Re: Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
#104To 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.…
I agree it seems that there is a very polarized effect happening, according to the comments some people get constant spam in their inbox and some people have never gotten anything.
It would be interesting to know the cause. I have actually signed up to loads of dodgy websites over the years, my email has been "pwned" according to haveibeenpwned, etc. So there's nothing particular that I've been doing to shield myself from spam, but Google still catches it all perfectly.
But then again, I completely believe all the other people saying they _have_ had spam come through, so it remains a mystery as to why. Is it some specialized spam list of a certain group that know how to bypass the spam filter? Is it Google A/B testing their spam filter? Who knows.
Re: Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
#105To 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.
Same thing here, I can't think of a single spam email I've received since before the pandemic.
As a side topic, I've heard a lot of people say that the Gmail UI has changed and that it's unusable now. This is what mine looks like and I really like it, is it not how everyone else's looks too? https://imgur.com/a/3ahD0Ta
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#106I haven't had any issues.
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#107Is this going to lead to a paid, improved spam filter subscription?
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#108To 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.
Same -- I have three accounts on gmail that I check regularly and I haven't seen spam make it past the filters for months. One of the accounts uses an email address that is, I think, 20 years old and that I have used publicly throughout (and thus gets a fair amount of spam).
Re: Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
#109I 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.
Same here, started a few months ago.
Re: Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?
#110They 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...
It's not because the filter was "too good," it's because political campaigns use hyper-aggressive email tactics that they learned from digital marketers. Trump's campaign(s) apparently took this to a new level (a friend of mine says he'd get up to 10 Republican emails every day , many of which had alarming subject lines) and now Republicans are claiming to be treated unfairly.
> Trump's campaign(s) apparently took this to a new level (a friend of mine says he'd get up to 10 Republican emails every day, many of which had alarming subject lines) and now Republicans are claiming to be treated unfairly.
Classic Republican move: they do something bad, and when people complain about that, complain that they're being censored/cancelled/whatever.
At that point, we're already in unfair competition area: when Republicans do everything they can to manipulate their voter base to donate money and Democrats refuse to engage in such tactics with their voter base (or at least keep the level down), how can anyone call that a "fair election"? Yes, it may be legal in terms of the law, but absolutely immoral.