Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes with political spam

Re:Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes wit... by kencausey on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:25PM (#32432569)

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.

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Re:Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes wit... by zindlerb on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:41PM (#32432733)

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.

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Re:Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes wit... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:36PM (#32432669)

> 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.

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