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+1, and legitimate emails going to the spam folder. Now I check my spam folder multiple times a day. Since 2004 Gmail never sucked this bad, and they don't care

by slig 5y ago

+1, and legitimate emails going to the spam folder. Now I check my spam folder multiple times a day. Since 2004 Gmail never sucked this bad, and they don't care.

jaytaylor 5y ago
Well, the regression might end up being good timing for users, since Google has also recently announced plans to take away the legacy Gmail custom domain names. This adds up to opening the door for competitors. Good riddance, big-G can't seem to stop fucking themselves over with regard to user trust at this point. It must truly be a royal mess on the inside, because the growing cracks are very publicly visible. Edit: It looks like today they announced the reversal of their stupid plan to take away the legacy g-suites? https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/28/google-will-let-legacy-g-suite-users-migrate-to-free-google-accounts/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/28/google-will-let-legacy-g-s... Shrug, all the back-and-forth still signals a huge cluster bomb on the inside. Everyone just wants promo. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30114343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30114343 It's sad to see what the benevolent mission of "help the world organize it's data" has devolved into. Instead of growing into something pretty, it's becoming more and more petty- nickel and diming us to the max, even when they're already making boatloads of money. There is no end to The Greed.
- slig 5y ago
  Blessing in disguise.
reaperducer 5y ago
The whole reason GMail gained public traction was because of its advanced spam filtering. Storage was good, but secondary. Now that everyone is locked in, the anti-spam efforts can be pared back, since nobody gets promoted in Google for doing their job well. Only for inventing a new job to do.
- slig 5y ago
  >the anti-spam efforts can be pared back But how hard can it be to continue flagging obvious spam? I agree that flagging real email as spam can be harder to avoid, but the number of patently clear spam going to the inbox is beyond ridiculous.
  - JaimeThompson 5y ago
    This is the same Google that allows Holocaust denial and lies about vaccines killing millions of people on their platform while blocking videos that point out the about things are wrong.
elondaits 5y ago
I even got emails from Apple (iTunes store receipts) and similar high profile senders going to spam, while some super obvious spam emails get through.
- slig 5y ago
  Same thing here, it's that bad.

by slig 5y ago

+1, and legitimate emails going to the spam folder. Now I check my spam folder multiple times a day. Since 2004 Gmail never sucked this bad, and they don't care.

jaytaylor 5y ago

Well, the regression might end up being good timing for users, since Google has also recently announced plans to take away the legacy Gmail custom domain names. This adds up to opening the door for competitors. Good riddance, big-G can't seem to stop fucking themselves over with regard to user trust at this point. It must truly be a royal mess on the inside, because the growing cracks are very publicly visible. Edit: It looks like today they announced the reversal of their stupid plan to take away the legacy g-suites? https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/28/google-will-let-legacy-g-suite-users-migrate-to-free-google-accounts/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/28/google-will-let-legacy-g-s... Shrug, all the back-and-forth still signals a huge cluster bomb on the inside. Everyone just wants promo. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30114343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30114343 It's sad to see what the benevolent mission of "help the world organize it's data" has devolved into. Instead of growing into something pretty, it's becoming more and more petty- nickel and diming us to the max, even when they're already making boatloads of money. There is no end to The Greed.

slig 5y ago
Blessing in disguise.

reaperducer 5y ago

The whole reason GMail gained public traction was because of its advanced spam filtering. Storage was good, but secondary. Now that everyone is locked in, the anti-spam efforts can be pared back, since nobody gets promoted in Google for doing their job well. Only for inventing a new job to do.

slig 5y ago
>the anti-spam efforts can be pared back But how hard can it be to continue flagging obvious spam? I agree that flagging real email as spam can be harder to avoid, but the number of patently clear spam going to the inbox is beyond ridiculous.
- JaimeThompson 5y ago
  This is the same Google that allows Holocaust denial and lies about vaccines killing millions of people on their platform while blocking videos that point out the about things are wrong.

elondaits 5y ago

I even got emails from Apple (iTunes store receipts) and similar high profile senders going to spam, while some super obvious spam emails get through.

slig 5y ago
Same thing here, it's that bad.