Ask HN: How AliExpress gets its recommendation as priority in Gmail?

2 points | by RicoElectrico 13 hours ago ago

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Now, here are two interesting bits:

1) They seem to change sender e-mails frequently

2) There's this "thing" in the HTML source. Maybe it's to trip up the filter and cause a fail-safe?

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