Spam filters are something we rarely give a thought to, but nevertheless, they are quite important- working backstage and taking quite the load off. This was something many Gmail users realized after a glitch in Gmail's spam filter let dangerous, malicious, not safe for work messages to be sent to their inbox.
The problem was picked up by Android Police when a remarkable number of individuals posted the spam issue on Twitter and Reddit. They complained about spam messages being sent to their inbox, even promotional and updates alert.
"Did Gmail's spam filter and category function just completely shut down for everyone else? Everything's now going straight to the primary inbox.", tweeted Lachlan Markey, thedailybeast reporter and Viking Books author on July 1st.
“It is a strangely comforting thing that I can just search for "Gmail" and immediately Twitter provides me with evidence that yes, others are getting weirdly hit with spam right now”, tweeted Rev. Emmy Kegler the same day.
“It is a strangely comforting thing that I can just search for "Gmail" and immediately Twitter provides me with evidence that yes, others are getting weirdly hit with spam right now” posted Abid Patel on the micro-blogging site.
Even Reddit was in-fluxed with threads discussing Gmail filter issue, "Is anyone else noticing that Gmail spam filters are broken as of an hour or two ago?", posted a Reddit user. Though Google did acknowledge the problem saying a notable amount of users faced the problem but the issue is now fixed and accounted for but ..
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