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by fx32s 2433 days ago
It's curious that people have such diverging experiences with the spam filter. I think the claim that Google's filter is objectively worse should at least be supported by some evidence if you're going to make a bold statement like that.

As another data point, for me and friends I it beats competitors by a large margin.
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Moru 2433 days ago
As a normal gmail user you won't notice this, all you see is that you get mail from your friends that you always mailed with. If you register on popular sites, their mail will also work. If however you are sitting on a new domain, sending mail to an old friend on gmail, it will very likely end up in the spam folder unless you are using a big provider that has reputation with google already.

I guess it's another case of survival bias. If it works you won't notice that it does not work in all cases.

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AJ007 2433 days ago
Even a lot of “popular” site stuff ends up in spam. I basically have to regularly check my spam box, which previously I would look at a few times a year when a password reset or something didn’t show up.

Anti-trust regulators should specifically look at situations where Google began directly competing with other companies and those other companies gmail messages are being put in spam while Google’s messages are not. Whether or not it is intentional, it is a problem if Google is whitelisting their own stuff but not competitors.

Ultimately what is going on here is Google is using more deep learning for spam detection. Your friend’s email ending up in spam may be a false positive. It may also be a test, to see if you notice it.

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natch 2433 days ago
If you never look in your spam folder you’ll never notice how utterly bad it is. Which is apparently the case for most people.
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Moru 2433 days ago
A lot of people don't even know there is a spam folder
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abofh 2432 days ago
So I own a very short, easy to type domain, and maintain a wildcard. By volume, I probably get 60% spam to 40% content. I apologize to all the hard working vendors being fed into my spam list, but there's a secret: double opt in.

As a bonus, if you require opt in, I won't be able to cancel your car reservations with budget ROBERT.

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