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Maybe it helps that I pay for Google Workspace, but my pretty well known emails do not really receive that much "spam". However, it depends what you consider sp
by 0xCMP 4y ago
Maybe it helps that I pay for Google Workspace, but my pretty well known emails do not really receive that much "spam". However, it depends what you consider spam and I have a pretty strict definition to be automated junk/phishing messages I never consented to receiving. I also include non-"junk" mailing list messages (some semblance of not being a scam or coming from a semi-legit org) that I either never consented to.
I imagine for a lot of people they, unknowingly?, subscribed to a lot of things they don't end up caring about and never try to unsubscribe. In Gmail they can even automate this for you to some extent. And I am pretty sure they track that information and if a mailing list isn't respecting those unsubscribes their email is going to start being dropped entirely.
Consider the possibility they someone is subscribing you to nonsense? I think Gmail's filters work pretty well. In fact I am very surprised how well they work because for a while I was getting a ton of spam in the inbox and losing important messages (~max 3 years ago). Now I can't remember the last time it happened.
- soiler 4y ago> I imagine for a lot of people they, unknowingly?, subscribed to a lot of things they don't end up caring about Driven largely by being forced to give an email address for almost any online interaction/transaction, and then being automatically placed on a subscription list with no notice or opportunity to opt out. I thought that had become illegal, but either I'm wrong or there's no enforcement. (I suppose the fact that I don't know how to report these offenders indicates why enforcement might be low.)