It’s not just Google unfortunately, Yahoo & Hotmail/Outlook are even worse.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Google’s spam filter is absolute trash, so it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it’s a false positive. Everyone loves Google’s spam filter, cause they hardly ever see spam, but that’s because it’s incredibly aggressive, and constantly makes false positives.
If you mark everything as spam, you’ll catch all the spam, right?
Anon518@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
XTL@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yes. Google’s spam filter is one of the best there is. It’s possible to train a better bespoke one if you control your own email, but provide one for free for all your users? Nobody’s ever done that better.
I remember the time before learning filters (turn of the 2000s). It was hopeless. (I also remember the time before spam email. It was hopeful.)
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I remember email before Gmail’s spam filter.
I’d get 20 emails a day and 15 of them would have various misspellings of knob pills in the subject. The rest would be pump and dump stock scams.