Then 3 years later
Brooks, Herman and Anderson Law firm - Bonto data privacy class action lawsuit
bonto has settled and agreed to provide one year of credit monitoring
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! 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.
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And if for some godforsaken reason you’re looking for help:
JOIN OUR DISCORD™ (whaddya mean you don’t wanna?)
*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*
BleachAnime2009 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.”
You say “Sorry, I tried searching but don’t see an answer. I’m not a programmer either so if you could just tell me I’d appreciate it.”
*You have been kicked*
BONMO~'s Kickstarter campaign turned out to be a scam, no refunds for existing investors, sowwy.
Anyway, now that the only alternative to BONTO! is dead, BONTO! merged with [weirdly popular social media company that you never paid attention to] and BONTO! is offering new subscription plans that give great deals if you pay for three years ahead of time for the low, low price of $450. Also, where will BONTO! be in 3 years? ¯\__(ツ)_/¯
Click here to unsubscribe. Great; it will take 4-10 days. It never unsubscribes.
Whenever a company does that, I never shop there again
You don’ hate email; you hate capitalism.
Yeah, use disposable mail adresses for registering
I love how almost every societal complaint or struggle can be traced back to the idea that there are a small number of people trying to take the money from a large number of other people for as unfair of an exchange as physically possible.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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 🤣 🤣 🤣
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!
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.
Dark Magician Girl
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?!
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.
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 cleavage@bust.com, 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.
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.
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!’
- 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.
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
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.
Specifically make sure that the “subscribe to newsletter and offers” is NOT checked.
Get a marketing email from them within 24 hours anyway.
I’ve seen quite a few sites that require you to tick the box to not receive marketing, maybe it’s that
I once considered buying a product. Got as far as putting my contact and address in (no account).
I’ve changed my mind last minute, and they’ve been badgering me every since, clearly having recorded my details for marketing purposes before I ever pressed a single button.This is in the EU too, I should rat on their ass
They just blatantly ignore your preferences because they know there will be no consequences.
The one thing that generally works well in Canada at least is that they must provide a way to unsubscribe at the bottom of the email. The complaint process is relatively simple and the fines for violations are steep.
Don’t forget
- "BONTO! is sneakily roping you into a binding private arbitration clause because they’re planning to do some real shady shit that’ll affect a critical mass of users!
(At the bottom of the email)
…You can still opt to use the public justice system that already exists if you disagree with this. You simply must send your disagreement in writing upon a clay tablet delivered by a specific courier to a remote P.O Box in Illinois within the next 32 business hours.
