Unsubscribing from marketing emails should also be much easier.
New Gmail rules enforced starting in February should reduce spam, make it easier to unsubscribe from bulk senders, and close email security loopholes exploited by cybercriminals.
Ehh I dunno, this doesn't really change much for regular mail operators. Anyone can choose to reject any message as spam based on whatever rules they choose, and this seems pretty reasonable.
I certainly don't enjoy having to update my mail server configuration every couple of years. But once done it does make a huge difference to what gets through. I do worry there might be tweaks to make for my patch sending workflow.
Meh...I don't trust them to do anything which is why I strictly use Gmail for spam, just like I did with Hotmail before that, and my ISPs email before that.
It's pure self-interest. They want better information about the person. Spam muddies the waters, so cleaning the up to have the best picture of whoever it is they're surveilling is only reasonable.
Yeah, meanwhile they are getting increasingly more invasive with their own ads right in my inbox. They even put "unread" ad emails down in the middle of my inbox which is like torture for my clean inbox OCD brain.
I feel like Google is taking their first real steps into enshitification. I didn't mind them having a near monopoly over the services I used when those services were far and above better than the alternatives.
Recently I switched to Firefox because of the impending ad/privacy nightmare, even though my UX has been worse with Firefox. I switched to DuckDuckGo because Google searches are shittier and more ad filled than ever. It seems like I'll stop using my Gmail soon too.
It's really irritating. They have had ads in the inbox for a long time, and at some point they started looking exactly like emails, but they were a slightly different shade and were grouped at the top.
Recently they started just strewing them about the top 50 mails that show in your inbox. And you can click them to clear them but they just come back.