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I'm a paying user, and have to say, I think I may want to give up this extra security for Google's world class spam filtering.


you might want to check yahoo mail then.

I work for them (oath now). and at some point all employers were forced to dogfood it. the UI took a while to get used, but now I miss in app tabs witg several emails (in Gmail I need browser tabs).

...Long story short: after yahoo was acquired we moved to gmail. you cannot belive how much more spam shows up on my imbox that I had never seens before.

not to mention yahoo took the high road on properly fighting spam for everyone, even if made them loose some users using misconfigured email lists.


I would like to respectfully disagree about spam on Yahoo mail. I have so much spam there, you won't believe. And what irks me the most is that a lot of it is easy spam: viagra, etc.


well, you have one anecdotal data point with two different email addresses, while I was providing a fact on 10,000 users with the same email addresses on both platforms.

my guess, you probably had the y email much longer than the g one (yahoo mail is a decade older) and you posted that email in too many geocities guestboards. do the same with your g address and report back in 10 years :)


Wait, Yahoo uses Google Mail internally? o_o


yep, after verizon. with a 3rd party for extra spam filtering.


Also their search engine doesn't include attachments




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