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[–] [email protected] 21 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Click here to unsubscribe. Great; it will take 4-10 days. It never unsubscribes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If in EU: make a GDPR complaint. Unsubscribing should be instant and no more difficult than signing up

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Can I use a VPN to permanently pretend I'm in the EU?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

As far as most websites are concerned, yeah totally

[–] [email protected] 24 points 17 hours ago

BONTO! sucked anyhow. BONMO~ is the FOSS replacement that does everything better.

They're looking for devs btw, which is why it's been so long without an update or bug fixes.

Donate HERE.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You don' hate email; you hate capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, use disposable mail adresses for registering

[–] Lucidlethargy 41 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

BONTO! has had a security breach. Your data has been stolen. We're sorry.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Your privacy is very important to BONTO! Please give us permission to share your data with the following 465 companies

[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

What a coincidence! This is how I found out about your breaches, too

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

Email is the original Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] tiramichu 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

DO. NOT. SCROLL. A wiched curse has been placed upon you! You may only break this spell if you send it to 10 people immediately. NO SEND BACKS!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Your curse is absorbed by my face down "Curse Eater" card. I place the "Booby Anime School Girl" card face up in my playfield and end the turn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Dark Magician Girl

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In the late 90s there was a women's magazine called Bust, and for some reason they'd also let you have a bust dot com email account if you wanted. You could email me at [email protected], and those were creative fun days of the Internet.

ETA: it still exists as a quarterly internet magazine but it is NOTHING like it was, it was a great magazine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Email has a place. I always let my teams know that text, phone call, or IM / DM aren't professional ways to communicate.

The reason being is that it isn't externally travelable - you can't send it to the next recipient in a format that is accepted by most people.

Also I hate needing to check five or seven fucking messaging apps to get all of the info consolidated. Send a goddamned email with everything once the thought is finished.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

What sort of team setting are you in that your whole team doesn't have a single IM messaging platform that everyone in your company has?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Why do you have "5 or 7" apps? Being able to communicate externally, with consistency, is the reason for email, that's it. If anyone sends me an email with a question or comment that isn't hyper specific I immediately tell them to go post in a relevant slack channel so others can search for the question/comment in the future.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)
  • Someone has sent you a private messages on BONTO! But we won't tell you what it says or you won't go to the website.
[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago

Hint: it's a private message from BONTO!-Bot offering you BONTO+! Premium Supreme! (It's BONTO! with less ads)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

The local school does this where you need an app to view their daily posts. You also get an preview sent to your email with the first 100 words or so and an link to their app.

Does their system know how to email to hundreds of users? Yes.

Could their messages be transmitted via text? Yes.

Could their messages be posted on a simple WordPress blog? Also yes.

Can I view their full messages on any platform independent device or web browser? No.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

[quick look at my gmail]... I currently have 781 unread messages in my inbox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Can anyone tell me how one of the richest companies on Earth doesn't have a "New Label" feature in their app? How? HOW?!?!?!??!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

0 here 🥳

And only 3 messages in spam but those are forwards from my gmail acct for notifications from google services. Can't be bothered to check if it's possible to use custom email instead because I should probably just stop using google altogether.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

Rookie numbers.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

What the hell is BONTO! I don't remember making an account on BONTO! Why do I have a BONTO! account is someone impersonating me WAS MY EMAIL HACKED??? Oh wait it's just a rebrand of that one website that forced me to create an account 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remember when mail was useful? When you opened the letter box hoping to see a letter from a friend who moved to a different city?

Now mail is just like email. Or to put it differently, email became like it's physical predecessor.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

We have a law in German that you can opt out of advertisement on the mail by putting a sticker on to your mailbox that states "No Advertising". Companies have to respect it or will be fined.

I wish there was a "No advertisement please" sticker for my inbox too, but a junk filter will have to do.

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