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I find this very interesting in 2026. I use my gmail address for everything and I don't really get spam (except from services I've subscribed to legitimately b

I find this very interesting in 2026. I use my gmail address for everything and I don't really get spam (except from services I've subscribed to legitimately but haven't bothered to configure to not send promotional mail). I never really get promotional mail from 3rd parties at all. Is this just gmail filters being very good?

pfa87 23d ago
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kolinko 22d ago
Gmail filters are very good, dod you check your spam folder?
- serbuvlad 22d ago
  No why would I do that? :)
- inigyou 22d ago
  Gmail blackholes even more spam, not even sending it to your spam folder.
windowliker 22d ago
Gmail filters are very good. But if someone with the same name as you starts using your e-mail address for everything because they don't understand or care about needing to see the e-mails they receive then there's very little you can do to stop it other than unsubbing from lists they sign up for (where possible). I've been getting someone else's e-mail traffic for about 5 years now, on two separate Gmail accounts, and while occasionally hilarious, it is somewhat scary to see how much I can know about their lives from the type of e-mails they get. I have replied to inform some of the senders about the situation with the suggestion that they could tell the other person involved to use a new e-mail address, but it is still happening. You'd think that they would need to see some of the important work-related mail they receive yet they are apparently utterly oblivious. I occasionally also get similar mail to my own domain through a catch-all filter. It's quite funny how little some people understand about what an e-mail address is, or how it's supposed to be used, even today.
- cube00 22d ago
  > very little you can do to stop it other than unsubbing from lists they sign up for (where possible) It certainly felt that way when someone was giving my GMail out to the cashier at the hardware store where I got no end of digital receipts which I couldn't unsubscribe from because they're providing the email address to the cashier each time. As they were receipts from a large verified brand Google treated them with the highest priority.
  - radlad 22d ago
    You can create a custom filter for this kind of thing, fwiw.
- nemomarx 22d ago
  why'd you get a Gmail with your personal name? isn't it kinda risky to give that out to every site and etc?
  - windowliker 22d ago
    Got it years ago when Gmail was still in beta. My friend sent me an invite and yes I was actually excited to get invited to use the new 'Google Mail'. 1GB mailbox? Wow cool! How times change. The address is mostly dormant but still required for certain services/accounts so I can't just delete it. Probably better to squat it anyway, all things considered.
- osiriskang 22d ago
  I've been in a similar situation for almost a decade now. There's an elderly woman who's email address is one character away on the keyboard from my own, and I often get emails meant for her. I tried for years to respond to inform them that they are using the incorrect email address, to no avail. At this point I've started to go in and disable/cancel anything that is signed up for with my email address and have to aggressively filter spam.
Corrado 22d ago
Yes, gmail filters are VERY good.
- IndySun 22d ago
  >Yes, gmail filters are VERY good. But might gmail junk filters be the best junk mail filters for nefarious proprietary reasons, possibly?
- jjav 22d ago
  Hard disagree. Unless by "good" you mean that a third of your legitimate email is shoved in spam by gmail. That is not good, by any measure. Even the simplest bayesian filter will score better than gmail.

pfa87 23d ago

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kolinko 22d ago

Gmail filters are very good, dod you check your spam folder?

serbuvlad 22d ago
No why would I do that? :)
inigyou 22d ago
Gmail blackholes even more spam, not even sending it to your spam folder.

windowliker 22d ago

Gmail filters are very good. But if someone with the same name as you starts using your e-mail address for everything because they don't understand or care about needing to see the e-mails they receive then there's very little you can do to stop it other than unsubbing from lists they sign up for (where possible). I've been getting someone else's e-mail traffic for about 5 years now, on two separate Gmail accounts, and while occasionally hilarious, it is somewhat scary to see how much I can know about their lives from the type of e-mails they get. I have replied to inform some of the senders about the situation with the suggestion that they could tell the other person involved to use a new e-mail address, but it is still happening. You'd think that they would need to see some of the important work-related mail they receive yet they are apparently utterly oblivious. I occasionally also get similar mail to my own domain through a catch-all filter. It's quite funny how little some people understand about what an e-mail address is, or how it's supposed to be used, even today.

cube00 22d ago
> very little you can do to stop it other than unsubbing from lists they sign up for (where possible) It certainly felt that way when someone was giving my GMail out to the cashier at the hardware store where I got no end of digital receipts which I couldn't unsubscribe from because they're providing the email address to the cashier each time. As they were receipts from a large verified brand Google treated them with the highest priority.
- radlad 22d ago
  You can create a custom filter for this kind of thing, fwiw.
nemomarx 22d ago
why'd you get a Gmail with your personal name? isn't it kinda risky to give that out to every site and etc?
- windowliker 22d ago
  Got it years ago when Gmail was still in beta. My friend sent me an invite and yes I was actually excited to get invited to use the new 'Google Mail'. 1GB mailbox? Wow cool! How times change. The address is mostly dormant but still required for certain services/accounts so I can't just delete it. Probably better to squat it anyway, all things considered.
osiriskang 22d ago
I've been in a similar situation for almost a decade now. There's an elderly woman who's email address is one character away on the keyboard from my own, and I often get emails meant for her. I tried for years to respond to inform them that they are using the incorrect email address, to no avail. At this point I've started to go in and disable/cancel anything that is signed up for with my email address and have to aggressively filter spam.

Corrado 22d ago

Yes, gmail filters are VERY good.

IndySun 22d ago
>Yes, gmail filters are VERY good. But might gmail junk filters be the best junk mail filters for nefarious proprietary reasons, possibly?
jjav 22d ago
Hard disagree. Unless by "good" you mean that a third of your legitimate email is shoved in spam by gmail. That is not good, by any measure. Even the simplest bayesian filter will score better than gmail.