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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.
by rconti 4y ago
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. Marking those as not-spam just leads directly to getting more spam. It happens with a single click. It's a 2 position slider at this point.
- dwringer 4y agoI get an unfiltered spam message in my inbox maybe once every month on average. I always assumed these are new campaigns with the newest "zero-day" exploits of the spam filter. Much more common is getting newsletters for which I have actually signed up, and marked as "Not Spam" in the past, delivered straight to my Spam folder. The number of spam messages I get in general, judging from what shows up in the Spam folder, varies wildly from week to week. Sometimes I'll get five over a two-week period, and then get a week where I receive about 15 per day.
- nkozyra 4y agoIt 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.
- twic 4y agoZero spam in my inbox, zero items in the spam folder (where they are deleted after 30 days). GMail is not my primary email, though. I use it for Meetup.com, Slack, Steam, maybe one or two other things. A quick google search suggests that my email address does not appear on the internet. Maybe people not suffering from spam have similarly private addresses?
- fluoridation 4y agoMy main account is reachable from a few public places. I get spam but all of it goes to the spam folder and none of it to the inbox.
- mrguyorama 4y agoI'm pretty sure my main gmail account has actually been dumped in a hack somewhere, it's old as time itself, and I STILL don't get any spam in it. In fact, I actually miss occasionally useful stuff because half my incoming email gets classified as "promotions" and put in a separate folder I never check that was automatically created when I made the account. It's stuff like emails from humble bundle about new bundles and GOG about sales etc, so spam-adjacent
- devilbunny 4y agoThat subfoldering made me miss a lot of important stuff too. I turned it off when I realized what I wasn’t seeing. Everything goes to inbox now. I heavily pruned the number of lists I’m on and just deal with the spam-adjacent stuff as it comes in; better than missing something I need to know.
- enlyth 4y agoI 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.