Why does yahoo have more spam than gmail?
By Lena Kovadlo
@lovebuglena (52142)
Staten Island, New York
January 22, 2021 1:29pm CST
Seems to me that those with yahoo emails get way more spam than those with gmail emails. Why is that? I have both yahoo mail and gmail and I've experienced just that.
With my dad's yahoo email it was even worse. I helped him reset his password recently and since I was in his account I went ahead and removed pretty much all the spam emails he had in his account. There were thousands upon thousands of them and they were all in his inbox. And I tried to unsubscribe from as many mailing lists as I could. It took hours. And I was exhausted. He would've never taken up this task himself. I don't remember if I checked his junk folder. I hope I did.
Seems you go and sign up for one mailing list and then your email gets sold to others and you get bombarded with emails from places you've never subscribed to. Or you get bombarded with emails from somewhere you did subscribe. It is so annoying.
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6 responses
@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
23 Jan 21
I have Spectrum email; and I hardly get any spam. They must have a good filter.
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@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
23 Jan 21
Do you not get spam emails at all or do they just go into the spam/junk folder?
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@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
24 Jan 21
@LindaOHio 
You are lucky!
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@prinzcy (32299)
• Malaysia
24 Jan 21
@lovebuglena at first almost all to inbox. I keep on choosing to report them as spam. It take a while to be honest. The worst is Quora. Then I just go to Quora directly and unsubscribe everything.
@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
23 Jan 21
Do they automatically go into the spam folder or do they no longer come at all?
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@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
24 Jan 21
@prinzcy I wish these emails didn't come at all. Not even to spam.
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@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
22 Jan 21
I usually check my emails from my phone not from my laptop, so I don't check the spam folder every day. But I do check emails multiple times a day and get rid of any crap. It's easy to delete from the spam folder in one shot but sometimes good emails go in there as well. so have to check that before selecting all and hitting delete.
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
22 Jan 21
I gave up on Yahoo after my account was hacked at least four times. I had to change every password each time. If they can't keep their site safe, then I decided not to stay there. I used a writing site on Yahoo that I did well at but when it went out of business, I bailed.
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@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
22 Jan 21
Unfortunately, hackers can get anywhere these days.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
22 Jan 21
@lovebuglena Yes, but I don't think Yahoo cared.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
24 Jan 21
I have a yahoo email. I don't have any spam mails. My gmail acciunt has so many for I'm regularly using gmail.
@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
24 Jan 21
You are lucky to not get spam in yahoo mail.
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@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
25 Jan 21
@Nakitakona Guess we can't win everywhere.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
25 Jan 21
@lovebuglena But in gmail I'm not spared.
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