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Re:Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypas... by jareklupinski on Thursday September 23, 2021 @06:21PM (#28636337)
sort of this: i treated the Promotions tab as a "unsubscribe from these mailing lists ASAP" tab as soon as the category feature came out

i get so few of them now i removed all those extra tabs and filters a year ago, but it was pretty useful to get my total inbox as clean as it is now :)

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Re:Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypas... by taftster on Thursday September 23, 2021 @06:23PM (#28636354)
Right, exactly. I want my "promotions" to land square one in my inbox, because then I'm going to deal with them right then and there. Unsubscribe comes first. A filter comes next, if they keep sending.
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Re:Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypas... by KMnO4 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:04PM (#28638178)
Gmail has a “report spam and unsubscribe” button which I use liberally.
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Re:Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypas... by taftster on Friday September 24, 2021 @08:07PM (#28649147)
I feel guilty using it the first go. I figure I will click on their unsubscribe link first. And then I will click the report spam button if they continue to send me email

Unfortunately, all I'm probably doing is just confirming my email address to generate future "mailing list" subscriptions.

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