• edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    4 months ago

    Don’t forget the inevitable “3 months ago we were made aware of a breach of the BONTO! servers. What information was taken? Bet you’d like to know wouldn’t you. What have we done about this situation? Fuck you, that’s what.”

    • Optional@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      BUT . . .But. To make it up to you we’ve also sold your info to a “Privacy Lock” company who will sell you something imaginary for as long as you pay them. That’ll totally fix it.

    • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      23 and Me customer here, and I couldn’t relate more. When I reached out to support to ask what data was stolen and how much they were planning on compensating me for having my genome leaked to the web, their answer was basically “We have no idea what you’re talking about. lol fuck you”

  • tinfoilhat@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    I’d argue that email is as useful as regular mail. I get about 2 letters a year written by a person. The rest is bills and marketing.

    Email is basically a central notification hub for users, and I’d much prefer that than having to log into each specific app to be notified of things.

    • lugal@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      You make fun of this but I really had bonto pro-premium-plus-max and it comes with many benefits like not getting these mails anymore

        • kshade@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          And, after the rebranding: “Someone looked at your BONTO! profile! Want to know who? Get BONTO! Premium and send them a BONTO!-Gram! Remember, this could be the beginning of something wonderful! Get it now for only $9,99 (first 6 months, conditions apply)!”

    • wizzor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Then when you finally upgrade to premium plus max lifetime, the acquisition happens and lifetime licenses get cancelled.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      And if you already did, then you’re really missing out on the pro lifetime plan that includes a lifetime license!*

      ^(* lifetime license only valid until we release the next version in 2 months)

  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    I have a 100 gb Google storage just so I don’t run out of email space. Even if you aggressively unsubscribe from shit, there’s just waaaaay too much emailing in general by companies.

    I once bought four items in a single order from Amazon. They shipped all items separately, which meant I got four shipment mails, four DHL ‘it’s underway’ messages, four ‘it’s being delivered today’ messages and four ‘your item has been delivered’ messages by DHL. Oh and to round it out: four delivery confirmations from Amazon.

    All told, that one four-item order meant 21 separate emails. There HAS to be a more efficient way to handle that.

  • BallsandBayonets@lemmings.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    Click here to unsubscribe from Slorp marketing emails. First log in. Forgot password? Click here to reset. Hmm, doesn’t appear to be a user account with that email address. Create an account? Check your email for the activation link. Confirm your contact information. Consent to tracking cookies? Manage notifications. Unsubscribe from all? We’re sad to see you go!

      • BigDiction@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Every platform with enough technical resources should support one click unsubscribe.

        I never understood the concept of making it difficult to unsubscribe. Marketers have a hard enough time getting users to open email at all. Let users help you clean up your subscriber list with an easy opt out to reduce your send cost and improve deliverability.

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      /> reset password

      “hmm, there doesn’t appear to be a user account with that email address”

      /> Makes new account

      “User account with that email exists. Reset password?”

      • AllOutOfBubbleGum@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Yeah, the CAN-SPAM act, as far as I understand it, doesn’t allow them to force you to make an account just to unsubscribe.

  • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    Every goddamn time…

    ☐ I would like to be contacted for marketing purposes

    Next day…

    Here’s that marketing email you requested!

  • z00s@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    *Your 2FA login code for SLORP

    *Your password reset link for SLORP

    *Your password reset link for SLORP

    *You have (2) new messages from other SLORP users

    *There has been a login attempt from a new device on SLORP

    *Your SLORP password may have been compromised

  • netvor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Folks, we need to learn to use aliases.

    Fastmail has quite nice implementation of this, they call it “masked e-mail”, but I bet there are many (perhaps under other names). (Disclaimer: I have no connection to FastMail other than I use their service and like it.)

    I’ve learned to just create new masked email for every domain where i share e-mail – legit or not. Then you can just disable the alias if it gets annoying. You can also reply to an e-mail you got to the alias without revealing your real address (as long as you do it from FastMail UI).

  • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    TBH I think if your email is filled with garbage you need to do a better job of managing your email.

    If they think email is bad now, then obviously a lot of people dont remember the 90s before spam filtering got decent.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    “Thank you for your pre-paid lifetime subscription to Slorp! Unfortunately, after the acquisition by BONTO!, we have made the difficult decision not to honor these Slorp Platinum accounts going forward. But please enjoy a 15% discount on your first month of BONTO! Premium+! (Have you seen our stock price?)”

  • JohnSmith@feddit.ukEnglish
    0·
    4 months ago

    Remember when email was useful? I remember when it was magical!

    Time for a story from the ancient times. I had this idea and asked my professor for advice. He said he knew a person on the other side of the world who would know all about it. “This is his ‘email’ address.”

    I had never heard about ‘email’ so I needed to learn what it was and how to send one. I wrote my message and off it went. The very next morning I had a reply. One of the best experts on a topic I was keen about had shared their thoughts from the other side of the world, just like that.

    In that time, a long time ago as you’ll appreciate, that interaction was magical.

    In an instant I understood the power of the Usenet. A while later and with a couple of additional protocols they started calling that the Internet.