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BuzzKill Vs FilterBox (reddthat.com)
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I downloaded and successfully setup buzzkill. Then a day or two later found FilterBox. It was created at the same time as buzzkill but has AI spam filtering – I'm guessing a traditional algorithm for spam filtering used in emails and not an an actual LLM.

So, why is it not recommended more instead of buzzkill.

Tap for spoilerOn ~~reddit~~..
It also has a nice UI and supports analytics for your notifications history. Also has double the downloads of buzzkill. Although, buzzkill has a simple UI.

The algorithm spam filtering which is based on your recommendation is neat. Especially, since you do not need to manually create rules for each and every spam message/notification across messaging apps.

What are your thoughts?

Since I just paid for buzzkill and did a thorough setup I hesitate to jump ship. But, spam filtering is enticing. For those 10-20% of use cases which cannot be filtered by regular rules unless you keep on adding more.

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[–] JayGray91@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It would be nice to link it, for a start

I assume it's this one?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.catchingnow.np

And if the filterbox dev would, you know, advertise their app like I remember Sam Ruston of buzzkill did on Reddit, maybe filter box would've been recommended more

[–] limerod@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, this is the app. But, not really answering the question.