If Your Gmail Inbox Is Being Flooded With Promo Emails, You're Not Alone (buzzfeednews.com)

Gmail users are reporting that promotional emails (meant to showcase deals, offers, and other marketing emails) from companies are ending up in their main "Primary" inbox (meant for person-to-person conversations and messages that don't appear in other tabs.). The company says it is working on a fix. From a report: Google told BuzzFeed News it's working on a fix, but it did not specify when users should expect inboxes to go back to normal. In a statement, a spokesperson said, "We are aware of an issue in Gmail causing certain promotional email to be incorrectly categorized. We are rolling out a fix shortly."

Comments

Spam from an ad company?! Noooo!!

[Anonymous Coward]

If your mailbox is full of ads, maybe you shouldn't have an ad company run your mailserver.

Re:Spam from an ad company?! Noooo!!

[Rockoon]

Hah my first thought was that Google is doing A/B testing.

part of why i hate amazon

[FudRucker]

they use the privilege that i buy products from/through them to spam my inbox with promotional spam, the only mail i want to see from amazon is a confirmation of a purchase and then a product shipped with a tracking number, anything more than that is spam

Re:part of why i hate amazon

[Anonymous Coward]

Amazon never sent me spam or any other email that is not related to my purchase. Maybe you should check your mail preferences? I use Amazon for number of years and had prime membership for at least 3.

not in years

[AndyKron]

I han't checked my gmail in years. Probably best I keep it that way.

Re:unsubscribe

[phantomfive]

people responsible for managing marketing emails for corporations use the unsubscribe link to verify your email address is valid.

They used to, but if marketers do this, gmail starts routing all their stuff into the spam folder. So legitimate companies don't do that anymore (spammers don't care).