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Comment by mychele | Hacker News Reader

The promotions/updates/forums/etc classification is also down.

This has been “down” for me for a few months now, ever since Google tied this functionality to the same toggle that opts you in for using your email data for AI training. So now you can’t filter this stuff without also agreeing to a whole swath of unrelated and opt-ins.

Ive since gone on an unsubscribe campaign, and things seem bearable now.

Same. Can’t ignore the messages when they’re all in one place, which makes hitting unsubscribe easier.

> which makes hitting unsubscribe easier.

wow, you really do that? Doesn't that just prove that the email address is read by a human and then promoted for even further SPAM to be delivered?

The Promotions tab is for marketing from companies that generally respect unsubscribing, not out and out spam.

It works with most real companies. If you signed up for it, you can generally unsubscribe from it. It’s easy to do by mistake, and some default to yes with no option during sign up.

I don’t care about whatever new shows Netflix has. Unsubscribe.

I don’t care about my DNS registrar having a sale. Unsubscribe.

Google postmaster notices when you hit the one-click unsubscribe button and severely punishes senders that continue to send. It's worth using as long as you understand that some senders will never allow you to sign up again.

> Google tied this functionality to the same toggle that opts you in for using your email data for AI training

This never happened. It was a lie spread on Twitter. And now you are spreading it.

Not a lie, a potential misinterpretation if anything. Google has never factually countered the allegation, and now it’s before the courts in California. I’m going to wait and see how Thele v. Google plays out before turning this back on, and looking for alternatives in the meantime.

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