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> As a gmail user, I 100% appreciate keeping my inbox extremely clean. Google's spam filter is a welcome addition.

Not the case for me. I'm okay with some spam. It's not hard for me to delete few mails every day. But I'm extremely not okay with legitimate mail marked as spam. And gmail keep doing that. And that means that I must check spam daily. So basically gmail spam filtering does not exist for me, because I still must read at least all subjects. And that's dozens of mails every day.



This is exactly the viewpoint I have as well. I have missed some very important emails before, such as instructions for an interview, acceptance emails, etc... They don't even show up in Gmail's search system, because it doesn't search through spam. This has forced me to look through all of the spam I get daily, examining each one to make sure I'm not missing something important. Gmail may as well not filter spam at this point.




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