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I HATE email (sub.wetshaving.social)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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 :/

[-] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

What about ip over avian carriers? I think it's better 😅

But yes. Email is great. :3

[-] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Eh, it suffers from higher than useful packet loss and has absurdly high latency.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

"BONTO is selling your personal info to Google! Click this non-working link to opt out!"

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

As far as most websites are concerned, yeah totally

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[-] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 days 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] 30 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days 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!

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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] 10 points 2 days ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 days 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] 3 points 1 day ago

This repository was archived by the owner on Jun 5, 2025. It is now read-only.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And if for some godforsaken reason you're looking for help:

JOIN OUR DISCORD™ (whaddya mean you don't wanna?)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

*joins discord*

You say "Hey guys, I'm new to bonmo and was wondering why it doesn't use traditional control-c and control-v for cut and paste? I think BRONTO! used the standard keys?"

*38 minutes later*

BONMASTER_420 says "first its called BONMO~ not bonmo and the answer is in the sauce we really dont have time to answer the questions of ever fukwit that joins the discord plus its not are job to explain why bronto did shit different tard fork it if you don't like it shitbeqd"

*1hr 12 minutes later*

BleachAnime2012 says "Again with the ctrl-c/ctrl-v thing? Jesus christ learn how to use the search function would you guys? This has been discussed to death."

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago

You don' hate email; you hate capitalism.

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[-] [email protected] 232 points 3 days ago

Then 3 years later

Brooks, Herman and Anderson Law firm - Bonto data privacy class action lawsuit

[-] [email protected] 75 points 3 days ago

Get your .0012¢ for a $7 processing fee!

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

OMG I had forgotten the prayer chains from southwhatever missionaries 🤣 🤣 🤣

[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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] 99 points 3 days ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 117 points 3 days ago

BONTO! was sooo good. Like it really improved the Slorpiness.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago

No way! BONTO! was just the enshitfication of Slorp by a private equity firm.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago
  • 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] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nextdoor. Freaking nextdoor is the absolute worst. I only have it because it's a decent "local Intel" source because nobody talks to (or knows) each other in suburbia anymore.

But it shows you like the first 10 words of a post, and just opening the website on a phone practically locks the whole page with a "GeT tHe ApP!" Pop-up.

Know what? Yeah I should dump it. Save my mental health. Lol

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago

Wait what? BONTO is shutting down??? Aww man...

[-] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago

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?

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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?!

[-] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days 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] 40 points 3 days ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm so happy this site is still running.

It's an enduring artifact of when the Internet was still fun.

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