Every year or so, I have to move to a new gmail because my old gmail starts going to people's spam, even tho i never do anything even close to spammy. I wonder if it's because I use my email to sign up for sex worker stuff and gmail knows it? I'm paranoid by this point.
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I signed up for ONE cougar website and that email is now a lawless wasteland
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Maybe gmail could provide a "lightning rod" facility : automatically create accounts on demand and link them to one account. Would be easier to filter.
Identity management is a serious issue that we will have address in this decade.
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Seems like a likely possibility. So many sites can make money just by opening their database to ad vendors. Gmail (& others) can only have a strong anti-phishing(+etc) system if they have a database to work from.
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I switched to using firefox web browser and a lot less mysterious stuff happens now.
I don't know if this is the real cause. But, it feels better than using google browser.
Also stopped using gmail
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Maybe it's not gmail, but being on the list of sex sites that tend to be selling information, the sites that create blacklists take the information from there.
You should continue to use one of your old accounts to sign up for sites that are likely to be blacklisted.
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It’s almost certainly because of that. Google’s models are trained on your email content, and if that content includes active engagement with sex worker resources, it seems likely the model would classify you as a sex worker and thus your communications as potential solicitation.
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Fun fact, Gmail will ignore anything in your email address after a + sign. So you can sign up for DavesAwesomeService.com with yourEmail+daveAreYouSellingThisEmailAddress@gmail.com and if you get any email with that suffix you know who sold you out.
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