Ask HN: Is Spam getting worse or is Gmail getting worse?

Over the past couple of months I've noticed that number of spam emails landing in my inbox has increased by quite a bit. I keep a very tidy inbox, so it's pretty easy for me to notice them and mark them as spam. But I'm curious: is Google just getting worse at detecting spam, or is the spam somehow evolving?

For example, I just got this email:

Sender: william_brown_318@rofopifj.dravixa.space Subject: the wagon is in

The body contains tons of literal HTML tags that weren't parsed into actual HTML. Not sure if it was sent as a text mime-type or what, but it takes all of 2 whole seconds for me to mentally note that this is spam.

How is this getting through more often these days?

6 points | by adamtaylor_13 15 hours ago

8 comments

  • SyntaxErrorist 5 hours ago
    It feels like we are hitting a point where AI generated variations are scaling faster that the traditional bayesian filters can adapt.
  • dhruv3006 2 hours ago
    WhatsApp is so so spammy.
  • JojoFatsani 15 hours ago
    They seem to have buried the report spam and report phishing functions in right-click menus. They used to be very easy to hit. I'm sure that is reducing signals to the spam algorithm.
  • drsalt 6 hours ago
    dude they can't do something as simple as sort by subject or sender. you think they're going to block spam?
  • PaulHoule 15 hours ago
    Yes.
  • brandonwindson 14 hours ago
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  • datagrasp-grcs 12 hours ago
    [dead]
  • furryfemboy69 11 hours ago
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