Re:Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes wit...
by quantified on Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:28PM
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Just give me a UI button to add my own spam filter rule.
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Re:Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes wit...
by mattzito on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:07PM
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There is- you can add filters that will route emails directly to spam based on the criteria you define
Re:Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes wit...
by kencausey on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:25PM
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I agree, but I'm hard pressed to come up with the appropriate criteria at least in advance of getting any real life examples. At the moment, I can't think of anything better than 'republican|democrat' but I bet that will generate both false positives and false negatives.
That said, I doubt that I have to be concerned about it as I'm pretty unknown in political circles, other than having signed up for vote.org years ago.
Re:Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes wit...
by zindlerb on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:41PM
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I setup a filter to archive any email with the phrase "paid for by" this has been pretty good at filtering all political spam. Although it may generate some false positives.
Re:Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes wit...
by JumpCrisscross on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:36PM
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> I'm hard pressed to come up with the appropriate criteria at least in advance of getting any real life examples
A wide filter would be “ActBlue” and “WinRed.” Otherwise, every jurisdiction has copypasta boilerplate in its political emails. Find yours and filter.
Re:Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes wit...
by quantified on Thursday August 11, 2022 @08:18PM
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That's not one button. Google can provide the button.