Using its time-tested and refined algorithms, Gmail does a pretty good job of trying to keep our inboxes free of Spam, Junk emails, and unwanted promotions. It even utilizes inbox tabs to categorize your promotions, social, updates, and forum emails and keep them out of your primary email tab where … [Read more...] about How to keep your Gmail Inbox free of Spam and Promotions
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Gmail will spare political campaign emails from spam filter
Brace yourselves because more email Spam is coming. As a result of questions, concerns, and accusations regarding bias in the way Gmail's spam filtering works, particularly as it pertains to political campaign emails in the U.S., Google began back in June to plan on mitigating this. This was … [Read more...] about Gmail will spare political campaign emails from spam filter
Google hopes to curb spam by hiding unknown sender invites from your calendar
You can now choose to only show events on your Google Calendar if they come from senders you know. This change was done in order to keep your calendar somewhat free of spam. However, you will still get email invitations to events from people you don't know, but they won't show up on your calendar … [Read more...] about Google hopes to curb spam by hiding unknown sender invites from your calendar
New YouTube updates target channel memberships, comment spam, and impersonation
You could argue that YouTube creators have a love/hate relationship with the platform. While it provides plenty of monetization options to make being a "Youtuber" a viable full-time job for some, it also has its downfalls and shortcomings that the creator community has been calling attention to for … [Read more...] about New YouTube updates target channel memberships, comment spam, and impersonation
Google pauses business messaging in India to address RCS spam
For the past few months, users in India who use RCS (Rich Communication Services) have encountered a barrage of ads coming in through the Google Messages app. The issue was getting so out of hand that users reported getting several ads a day that were predatory in nature, looking to get users to … [Read more...] about Google pauses business messaging in India to address RCS spam
