metalshadow1909 shared a comment of this post/conversation

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:47:39 +0000 from mastodon

It's not just you. Gmail's spam filter looks like it's gone to shit overnight, for reasons as yet unclear. Hearing from others as well that typical spam is making its way through to their Gmail inboxes. Promotion email sorting (for those who have it) also seems busted.

Alison Wilder

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:49:37 +0000 from mastodon

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social oh dear god, this is gonna make my week next week extremely fun.

Riccardo Coluccini

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:54:03 +0000 from mastodon

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social even their own email
from google alerts are not being sorted out correctly

Steve Atkins

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:55:46 +0000 from mastodon

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/NNnDkY9CJ36annsfytjQ # incident report

Zack Whittaker

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:58:31 +0000 from mastodon

It really says a lot about a company that's both the monopoly in search *and* email — and has utterly fucked up both of them.

gh0sti

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:58:57 +0000 from mastodon

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social probably AI

lemgandi

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:14:27 +0000 from mastodon

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social The secret ingredient is monopoly. They no
longer have to care about their customers, just their shareholders. And those must see endless growth. Pretty difficult if you already have 90% of the possible market.

Mikko

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:24:03 +0000 from mastodon

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social

This

chocobo13ζ

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 04:20:46 +0000 from mastodon

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
If we go by what has been said by execs at the time leading up to search going to shit, the likely explanation *is* that they became the monopoly, and had to worsen the product to keep datapoints - er, users - around longer, so investors continued to see them as a growing, not mature, company, keeping the price to earnings ratio in their favor

WTL

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:58:40 +0000 from mastodon

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social Good. I was wondering what was going on.

🎆🎉 Masto New Year 🎊🎇

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:06:11 +0000 from mastodon

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/

Mx. Eddie R

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:36:06 +0000 from mastodon

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
Same here, flood of "cloud storage" spam getting through suddenly.

Cut over to Gemini based spam filtering so we each count as +1 Gemini user for investment seeking purposes?

Rick d Card

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:16:03 +0000 from mastodon

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social I didn't realise people still used Gmail

Fuse

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:32:04 +0000 from mastodon

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
I am looking forward to reading more about this glitch in https://this.weekinsecurity.com/ thus making a "cybersecurity newsletter" that contains a "Gmail-spot".

metalshadow1909

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:41:01 +0000

My Comcast IP has always been listed on Spamhaus...except for three hours last night

https://fedi.openrocky.top/.well-known/apgateway/did:key:z6Mkvcs5TZwgFMGViZSGBBunujtkAZtPA7xbvMCe2bTB1MwM/photo/9dfc3eac-1be4-4ad5-a5b6-7e8110b02415-2.jpg

mike805

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:31:57 +0000 from mastodon

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social This is around the same time that Windows 11 wont even shut down properly. People may have to migrate off these platforms just because they are no longer usable.

I'm currently moving most of my computing to Linux. So far so good.