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If Your Gmail Inbox Is Being Flooded With Promo Emails, You're Not Alone (buzzfeednews.com) 49

Posted by msmash from the stranger-things dept.
Gmail users are reporting that promotional emails (meant to showcase deals, offers, and other marketing emails) from companies are ending up in their main "Primary" inbox (meant for person-to-person conversations and messages that don't appear in other tabs.). The company says it is working on a fix. From a report: Google told BuzzFeed News it's working on a fix, but it did not specify when users should expect inboxes to go back to normal. In a statement, a spokesperson said, "We are aware of an issue in Gmail causing certain promotional email to be incorrectly categorized. We are rolling out a fix shortly."
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If Your Gmail Inbox Is Being Flooded With Promo Emails, You're Not Alone

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  • Spam from an ad company?! Noooo!! (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:16PM (#57768018)

    If your mailbox is full of ads, maybe you shouldn't have an ad company run your mailserver.

  • Unsubscribe doesn't work for spam, but for company promos, just unsubscribe. There's no reason to keep that stuff around
    • Hello, former customer service / tech support agent for a company that provided spam mailing software.

      You should know that most spammers and people responsible for managing marketing emails for corporations use the unsubscribe link to verify your email address is valid.

      Corporate newsletters are not managed by an employee of the company they are ostensibly sent from.

      They are managed by third parties who specialize in dodging spam filters.

      If you clicked the unsubscribe link it means you have a valid e

  • part of why i hate amazon (Score:3)

    by FudRucker ( 866063 ) on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:34PM (#57768140)
    they use the privilege that i buy products from/through them to spam my inbox with promotional spam, the only mail i want to see from amazon is a confirmation of a purchase and then a product shipped with a tracking number, anything more than that is spam

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Amazon never sent me spam or any other email that is not related to my purchase. Maybe you should check your mail preferences? I use Amazon for number of years and had prime membership for at least 3.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by taustin ( 171655 )

      All I ever do see is order and shipping confirmations, and the occasional question about a specific product from someone considering buying it (and I'm pretty sure I could opt out of those, too).

      Yeah, it should be the default, but you can get rid of their crap. If you're smart.

  • Funny, I'm the only one in the room...

    Until we learn how to make the internet peer to peer, there will be no 'privacy'. I don't know why that's so difficult to understand and/or accept.

  • Oh, PROMO emails... (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Sorry, read that wrong. Nope, none of those here.

  • not in years (Score:4, Insightful)

    by AndyKron ( 937105 ) on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:48PM (#57768258)
    I han't checked my gmail in years. Probably best I keep it that way.

  • What is Gmail doing where messages that are not Spam and are not otherwise filtered by the users are expected to go somewhere other than the Inbox??

    Do they give you multiple Inboxes now? Why the fuck would anyone want to have to check multiple Inboxes they have no control over?
    If I want to filter shit, I filter shit. Who the hell lets Google decide what's what beyond spam?

    • If you've not set it back to how it originally was before they mucked around with it, you'd have some tabs: Primary, Promotions and Social (I think. First day I saw that I reverted it). Google decided that it would take on the job of sorting email into categories so you wouldn't have to bother. I guess for the most part users didn't care much as their Gmail address was their only point of contact, and it worked pretty well, but I'd already got rules and filters to categorise long before they decided to do t

      • I actually found it useful, basically for the opposite reasons you didn't. I set filters, and that was it. So it's always been a jumble I didn't care enough about to sort. Now my two Youtube subscriptions of LTT and Scott Manley show up in Social, AAA, other insurance and payroll show up in the promo tab and the rest (I don't use the forum tab) show up in the main tab. It actually cleaned up my messy mailbox.

        Email is not primary to my work, so it's always been very low priority for me.

        Today however I did h

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by peakxx ( 814921 )
        Totally agree, zero inbox rule gets blurry if you use tabs: http://mhariri.info/posts/gmai... [mhariri.info]

  • senders adapt.. (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    imagine that. google implements default filters and sorting and along comes email advertisers who figure that shit out so their junk email gets sorted like personal emails from family and friends.

  • Especially if they are the spammer.

  • because the deals were actually pretty good, but lately they're the same prices I can get any old time of the week.
  • I'm getting SMS bombed. Twice a day my phone wakes up with some ad I don't want to see.

    What changed, and how do I fix it?

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