Related but more handmade, I have a quickArchive filter which is for all these transactional emails, automatically made by lots of "from:..." (If you're on a lot of list servs "-to:PRIMARY_EMAIL" is also great. So when I go through email, i first search for quickarchive emails in my inbox and mostly just skim the subject line to be sufficient. Then archive them all and go back to the inbox. It's often half of the emails
There are also Gmail filter generators so you could run this analysis once and then generate the filters for future use
Cool! This sounds like a lighter-touch way to do it. A long time ago, to help with the filter issue, I went through a phase of signing up for services as (mygmail)+(theirdomain)@gmail.com (though perhaps it would have been smarter to do +spam@gmail.com). Though occasionally these places will send messages you want to read, so I like your solution more.
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[ 0.21 ms ] story [ 13.6 ms ] threadThere are also Gmail filter generators so you could run this analysis once and then generate the filters for future use