Anecdotally gmail has been doing a miserable job filtering spam for the last 5 months or so. For me it used to be pretty bulletproof - one of its best features.
Now I get something from McAffee Pratners(sic) every other day warning my computer is about to expire. Back in May I kept winning things from Home Depot and Lowes; and gmail would categorize it as "forums".
Add another anecdote to the anecdata pile. Past three months, McAffee and north american shopping chain spam is breaking through Gmail filters. And reporting as spam does not help. I assume they've been somehow building Google reputation for the spam accounts.
Similarly I've been getting smashed with gmail spam, google calendar spam and google drive spam for around 6 months now after never previously getting any and despite reporting most of it.
I occasionally have spam that slips through Gmail's filters, but when I explicitly mark it as spam it disappears nothing of the same type reappears again.
Ironic, since Microsoft is the worst (in my experience) at being a giant black hole to emails sent from an otherwise well-configured (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, non-SBL-listed IP, &c) but not major SMTP host.
I disagree. Prior to Gmail i used to get thousands of spam email everyday
Now everything is filtered. Barely get any.
The added benefit is I don't get any tech calls for help from my parents who also don't end up clicking random spam and wondering why bad things are happening
Now I get something from McAffee Pratners(sic) every other day warning my computer is about to expire. Back in May I kept winning things from Home Depot and Lowes; and gmail would categorize it as "forums".
No idea if its related, just odd.