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Luckily it's easy to disable, or I'd be jumping ship now. Just turn off the tabs and the ads go with them - and the tabs are pretty useless anyway.

• binderbizingdos 13y ago
  adblock?
• Kiro 13y ago
  The tabs have already improved my Gmail experience tremendously so not sure why you think they are useless.
  • cstross 13y ago
    In my case they're useless because I read email via IMAP -- I only ever visit the web interface if I don't have access to my laptop or want to flag something as spam. More to the point, I do not want some algorithm "helpfully" sorting my incoming email into different views according to some opaque criteria that I don't get to define or tweak: I want to see everything in my default inbox, no exceptions. Permitting someone else to sort my mail via rules I have not defined is how important business email gets missed or overlooked.
    • Legion 13y ago
      > according to some opaque criteria that I don't get to define or tweak Exactly this. When I saw the tabbed inbox, my first thought was, "oh, this will be cool", followed shortly by, "wait, I don't get to control or customize this at all?" Really, why can't I define my own tabs for specific searches/labels? The black box tabs they provide now should just have been defaults within a customizable feature.
      • arkem 13y ago
        You can customize it but the UI isn't particularly obvious. You can drag emails between tabs to teach gmail which is the most appropriate tab, you can also designate inboxes as a filter action. Personally I think it's a great feature but one I won't be using because I already have a labyrinth of filter rules that perform the same function.
        • b1daly 13y ago
          I've been surprised at how well the new tab system has been working. How could you make a filter that would sort on the broad criteria of "promotions" and "social"?
          • norfish 13y ago
            Some machine learning algorithm; it's not so different from classifying emails as spam/not spam.
            • Kiro 13y ago
              He/she asked how to do it with filters.
    • medde 13y ago
      If you move messages to [Gmail]/Spam, it should report them as spam. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/77657?hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/77657?hl=en
  • agilebyte 13y ago
    I deal with email as it arrives striving for inbox zero. Having to click on multiple tabs slows me down. There is no different priority to my incoming emails. If it is unimportant I unsubscribe or mark as spam.
  • hackinthebochs 13y ago
    Tabs are the same thing conceptually as the filters on the right. I don't see how the tabs improve anything.
  • tjbiddle 13y ago
    Not OP, but in my experience I always shoot for inbox zero - So I only need my inbox, archive, and starred folder really. I sift through my emails and archive everything that doesn't need my attention, and star anything that does - After I have nothing left in my inbox I give any emails in my starred folder attention.
• aet 13y ago
  Why not just use pop3/imap or something?