I actually love email. It’s great that we have a standard and open protocol for sending and receving virtual mail. Without email we would be now probably using some closed-source proprierary and not interoperable solution witch locks you in. I’m glad it didn’t happen.
I will fight anyone who disagrees with the fact that email is the best protocol ever invented. It is perfect. Arbitrary text, file attachments, e2ee with gpg. It has zero downsides for most things. It’s just been destroyed by corpos :/
What about ip over avian carriers? I think it’s better 😅
But yes. Email is great. :3
Eh, it suffers from higher than useful packet loss and has absurdly high latency.
This memey post isn’t about Email as a concept, it’s about the state of commercial communication companies and the way we access having email.
Don’t worry. I get it. :3 I’m just adding another perspective to the discussion.
I as well like email, it just has to be managed. Then you threw in the alternative involved a solution with a witch locking me in, and I’m intrigued to know more.
“BONTO is selling your personal info to Google! Click this non-working link to opt out!”
Meanwhile:
No, I don’t like e-mails, they’re all spam, I only have an account to register other accounts. Why can’t we continue our chat here on Natziapp (formerly known as Chatter)? Yes, I know, it’s full of nazis, and stuff, but if we convince him hard enough, he could change for the better.
BONTO! Has been turned into a cube
Click here to unsubscribe to the cube
Then 3 years later
Brooks, Herman and Anderson Law firm - Bonto data privacy class action lawsuit
Get your .0012¢ for a $7 processing fee!
That hasn’t been my experience. My portion of the settlement is usually about $100.00. it’s insulting, but it still spends.
I’m still waiting for my $13 from fuckerberg
bonto has settled and agreed to provide one year of credit monitoring
BONTO! was sooo good. Like it really improved the Slorpiness.
No way! BONTO! was just the enshitfication of Slorp by a private equity firm.
<unwarranted rage No way, BONTO! sucked. You couldn’t even Slorp your entire friends list anymore, and they added all of those BONTOgrams for no reason. We disagree on a topic, so I despise you now and your entire genetic line. </rage
But you should really try NeWSlarP, a FLOSS fork of Slorp by the original developer that brings back both SlorpTokens and Schlarpmänner!
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for the tag is left as an exercise for the reader.
unwarrantedis a property of theragetag (the properties are declared before the tag name)This… This isn’t something you can actually do in HTML is it? I’ve been doing web development for years and I feel like I’m about to learn some horrifically cursed knowledge…
Nope, it’s a CHTML extension. C for cursed, although that’s redundant.
HTML goes <br>
HTML goes <br>
I’m not sure if that’s a “machine goes brrrrrr” joke or not. If it is, it’s brilliant. XD
oh thank fuck
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for the tag is left as an exercise for the reader.Lmao that’s great
The real answer is that when I closed the tags, they didn’t show up in the comment. So I left them open, because it looked utterly ridiculous. But I like your interpretation way better!
Probably needed to escape them with \
Are we just turning into the bug aliens from Rick and Morty?
Your end tag for rage is the wrong way and I do hate you and your entire genetic line now
I prefer Slurm, myself.
You jest but…
Enshittification never sleeps, stealing all ideas that it can possibly get away with!
As a top 1% graaaaj user, I always felt bad for you guys. You should migrate to graaaaj, we have asparagus!
BONTO! will be deleting your data soon
Log into BONTO! to save your data
BONTO! will be deleting your data soon
BONTO! will be deleting your data soon
BONTO! has archived your data
Deleting your data for you. Their copy is theirs.
Photobucket moment.
Subject: your billing statement is now available
Body: Log on to our website because we couldn’t possibly JUST FUCKING TELL YOU HOW MUCH ELECTRICITY OR WHATEVER YOU USED THIS MONTH DIRECTLY IN THE E-MAIL; no, we’ve got to play fucking games and make you do extra work and stop you from automatically having a record of your shit without having to deliberately log on to the platform we control and download them individually with 30 seconds worth of clicking between each one.
WTF is even the point of the email if there’s NO USEFUL INFORMATION IN IT?!
It’s annoying, but from a data security point of view it makes sense, personal information like that is more secure behind the login on their website than in an e-mail in plain text.
That should be my choice, not theirs. I should at least be able to opt into having useful information directly in the email!
I agree with you, but it’s easier for those companies to just do one option, rather than offer user/customer choices which would create additional effort both technical on the backend and legally.
When it’s billing data I can see it, but if it’s a notification that someone sent you a message, you know there’s no reason they can’t include the message text. They just want your engagement (looking at you, LinkedIn).
No, you’re absolutely right. Hiding a message behind a login is essentially linkedin style click baiting.
I’m currently locked out of my electricity provider’s payment site. They kept asking me if my name was on the account when I logged in. I would click yes and then it’d ask for a bunch more information. I managed to get around it and get to bill pay. Eventually they locked me out. Now they want me to call them so they can get more data out of me to sell to data brokers, and on principle, I’m not about that, so I just pay by phone like a boomer with my paper bill now.
Of course not, can’t let the consumers keep an easy paper trail of their bills. That would mean we would be caught on mischarges!
But the website will only show how much you used, if you want to see how much that costs, you have to use our app, which for some reason requires location access, storage access and call access…
Information channels arent for communication.
They’re for advertising, provocation, and corporate shibboleths of consent.
Maybe get on board with the 20th century, grandma.
Oh, not the total owed, but the actual usage graphs. Yeah I only get an annual email containing a recap pretty much at years end for a few services. Otherwise it’s off to the shitty website.
Otherwise it’s off to the shitty website.
I’ve been promised that AI will fix all the shitty websites, soon.
BONTO! has had a security breach. Your data has been stolen. We’re sorry.
Your privacy is very important to BONTO! Please give us permission to share your data with the following 465 companies
Please give us permission to share your data with the following 465 companies
Those are amateur numbers. No wonder BONTO is getting aquired and restructured. They need to get those privacy invasion numbers up!
Please log in to your account to opt out. Privacy settings in your account are unlocked between 1:00 and 1:30 GMT, and are accessed from a PS2 stored in the basement of the county office, behind the leopard.
Don’t worry about the data breach. They had already sold your data to everyone out there.
In my experience, you find out BONTO! had a security breach via an Ars Technica article published around 4 months after the fact because the data was found on the dark web. Zero correspondence from the company itself except in rare circumstances
Have you ever gotten an email for a breach from the company that leaked your personal data? Haveibeenpwned.com is how I found out about my breaches.
What a coincidence! This is how I found out about your breaches, too
:O
The same could be said for any form of communication, really.
I remember when phones used to be good. Now it’s all
- We have important information about your car’s warranty.
- Here’s information on new solar panel installation that doesn’t work with your home / location.
- You’ve been selected to answer a quick 15 question survey.
I remember when mail used to be good. Now it’s all
- I’m a disgraced Nigerian prince and I need your help to protect my multi-million dollar fortune.
- Here’s all the important sales WalMart is having this week! Don’t miss out!
- Here’s your electricity bill that you’re enrolled in auto-pay for. No action is needed on your part, but we’re sending you this 12-page summary anyway.
Will happen to every new medium eventually. It’s inevitable under capitalism.
I think a lot about a post I saw that said “you hate every piece of capitalism but refuse to connect the dots to see that picture”
Rss? Granted I haven’t touched it in years so idk if it’s still good
It’s still good. It’s great even. The best part is you can’t “leak” an RSS address so when you subscribe to something you won’t be added to spam without you knowing. It’s a great medium.
you can’t “leak” an RSS address so when you subscribe to something you won’t be added to spam without you knowing
Ah, so now we definitely know why it was quietly swept under the rug!
Thank goodness we have the amazing future now:
ALLOW THIS WEB PAGE TO SEND YOU NOTIFICATIONS!!???
–Every stupid webpage ever
Unrestricted, glorious, arbitrary code at the accidental flick of an “allow” button. Normies everywhere getting inundated with random loud full-page video ads from chrome notifications that recursively cascade-subscribed them to a million other chrome notifications.
I remember when phones used to be good.
Telemarketers have been around for a long, long time (Wikipedia claim “…the practice of contacting potential customers by telephone originated in the late 19th century.”).
I personally recall a lot more telemarketing in the 90s, though I was a kid and just passed the phone to mom or dad. But that was also a time when caller ID was a luxury, and not everyone had answering machines.
The last time I had a landline was 16 years ago when my wife briefly had a home office. Her employer required the landline as part of the home office setup (they paid for it).
We got spammed by robocallers every 5-10 minutes all day long and half the night. It was so bad that my wife never knew when a work call was coming in and had to let every call go to voicemail.
We didn’t unplug the phone just turned the answering machine to silent. We still got calls on a supposedly disconnected number.
Wait what? BONTO is shutting down??? Aww man…
I only really liked it when it was Slorp. When they changed over to BONTO that’s when the enshitification started. Where my Slorp homies at?
I agree, I only stayed on BLORP for the Bgrams.
There’s now a self-hosted alternative to BLORP that has full Bgrams support.
Yeah if you don’t mind running a bunch of non FOSS plugins. What you want in 2025Q3 is Brix – it’s like Bgrams if the Slorp team made it. Full, batteries-included Bgrams/animal/CURT3 interop. Yeah.
The one guy who maintains it is a solipsist who doesn’t believe any of us exist, but you can’t argue with his results.
My current personal hell is
Log in to use Splurp™️!
USERNAME: Bongo Password: Schleeb209-!AA12
An E-Mail has been sent to Bongo@bingus.gov with a link to sign in [click link] Please confirm with 2FA!
Now do this again every fucking hour on this service you use all day you fucking cow.
bc work emails need to be more secure than classified war plans… for some fucking reason
botos binted
I legit got an e-mail from Facebook telling me that I should join Facebook because “no one uses e-mail anymore”. Ummmm……well someone must be still using e-mail and No.
You should have sent a reply email saying ‘I know!’
I actually love email. While yes, this post is accurate, email is the most filterable communication system that I have. Since I have my own email-server, and I know how procmail rules work, I can tightly control who is allowed to contact me, and what folders their messages go into. It also has great crowd-sourcing of known spammers, that I can pull from to help me filter out spammy IP addresses.
Every other message system only has a “report spam” button, that is dependent on the service admins, and doesn’t actually stop people from sending me annoying junk-mail.
Yeah, it’s also one of the few remaining interoperable ways of communicating.
If your friend who used to use gmail is now using hotmail, you don’t have to use a new app to communicate with that friend, you just update their email address and nothing else changes. If you used to be on gmail and you now want to run your own mail server you should check into a mental health clinic, but once you get out, you just tell your friends your new email address and for them nothing else changes. In fact, you can set gmail to forward emails, so any friends who forget will still communicate with you without difficulty.
If you used to be on gmail and you now want to run your own mail server you should check into a mental health clinic.
No freaking kidding. I just wanted to set up an address to like, send me server notifications and stuff. Not worth the hassle!
An ever-present torrential maelstrom of email bot spam has spawned so many hoops and regulatory checks it made this process not worth it. And that’s aside from just getting and keeping it running!
Yeah, I’ve run one for decades. I keep thinking it will get easier but it never does. I get better at the old stuff, then new stuff comes up which makes it difficult again. I always had the intention to offer it to friends and family, but I’ve never felt confident that I could guarantee that it would work. These days I know what I’m doing, but I can never guarantee that emails sent from my domain will arrive. Google or Yahoo or Microsoft will sometimes just automatically mark things from my domain as SPAM even if I’m following all the SPF, DMARC, DKIM, whatever rules.
And that’s all aside from the constant, unending stream of SPAM I’m dealing with, in addition to the constant, unending attempts to hack my server.
Actually no, I don’t remember when email was ever useful and I do remember dial-up internet 😂
It used to be chain emails “Send this to 10 other people or YOU’LL DIE” and people forwarding other people’s bad picture slideshows and even worse uplifting inspiring cards without looking at them, and now it’s automated slop.
“Send this to 10 other people or YOU’LL DIE”
And a lot of “I’m not superstitious BUT…” LOL
I almost miss how stupidly innocent the internet felt with that nutty stuff back then. Most chain letters were merely annoying social experiments rather than ultra nefarious like social media has become.
(Edit: lol just noticed a very similar take a few posts above me.)
“Flashing headlights at cars is a gang initiation to help them pick who to murder! Pass this along because it’s better safe than sorry!”
“Opening the wrong email might give you the Life is Beautiful virus that says ‘your life is no longer beautiful’ and wipes your hard drive! Tell everyone you know!”
(Ah, when an erased hard drive was the scariest malware one could think of…)
“Snd ths 2 15 ppl and push Alt+F4 and teh naem of ur crush will appear. (Zomgwtfbbq it rly works!!)”
“I’m a missionary in South Afrimericasia and I wanted to send this prayer chain around the entire world to prove something wholesome and also send money plz lol. Look, Sarah passed it on and her life turned around! The divine holy power of email!”
I had to spend a lot of time directing people I knew to a now-defunct site called “BreakTheChain” , and also Snopes. Usually the same people. Every time.
And sometimes they’d tell me “Well I forward it to you because you can tell me if it’s true or not.” I don’t miss that. Lmao
OMG I had forgotten the prayer chains from southwhatever missionaries 🤣 🤣 🤣
Those meme email chains were annoying at the time, but kinda endearing to look back on in retrospect.
I kept getting added onto ones my mum and dad were getting from a bunch of their friends that had people’s random corporate/work email addresses included and stuff…
It was a simpler time, when boomers hadn’t discovered social media yet, and were making their own fun without Facebook and without the algorithm.
If someone offered me a chance to magic social media away like it never happened, and the price I had to pay was unfunny memes spamming my inbox, it’s a price I’d pay gladly.
For me the worst was the slideshow fad… So many people were making some and constantly sending them to ALL their contacts and forwarding those of other people making them and you kept receiving some of people who knew someone who knew someone you knew because of the forwarding… Since the last step came from people you knew, you couldn’t just block them, and if you didn’t answer every once in a while it was terribly rude… Also those butt ugly sparkling greeting cards 😬
Now spam is so common that it’s a perfect excuse, I just warn people that I don’t read email so don’t bother sending them 😂
But I agree on principle, the annoyances used to come from people who were over-enthusiastic over new technology like email, photo editing and such, and wanted to share it with everyone (willing or no). Or people who were having fun with chain emails (I might possibly have started a few on my school local network so I do understand… but to be fair no one used that network and its email system for anything else but email chains 😂 ). Now it’s all automated slop.
Those meme email chains were annoying at the time, but kinda endearing to look back on in retrospect.
I still cringe at the memory of the one time I forwarded one – it was something about Bill Gates, but I can’t remember the details. Anyway, my uncle replied back to me with something wholesome like
Nice to hear from you [mad_lentil], although I doubt this offer is genuine, you never know! Maybe we’ll all be rich this time next year. Say hi to your mom and dad for me, thanks.
It had never occurred to me that someone would lie on the internet rofffflllll. I was SO humiliated.
In college one of my friends wanted to show how easy it was to get an email chain going. He was on the student council so he wrote up something about if it was forwarded enough we would get another day off for spring break, added some email headers to look like he got it through 5 other people, then sent it to everyone on the student council. This was at a school with over 10k students.
By the end of the next day everyone I knew had gotten the email at least healf dozen times. The day after that the school paper had a story letting people know that it wasn’t true.
Yep, nobody lies on the internet.
Honestly though, that sorta thing should happen more often. It sounds like a great way to demonstrate how fast misinformation spreads, without actually hurting anyone.
Maybe some of those hit by that reality would think twice next time something sounds too good to be true.
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