Click here to unsubscribe. Great; it will take 4-10 days. It never unsubscribes.
If in EU: make a GDPR complaint. Unsubscribing should be instant and no more difficult than signing up
Can I use a VPN to permanently pretend I’m in the EU?
As far as most websites are concerned, yeah totally
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.
You don’ hate email; you hate capitalism.
Yeah, use disposable mail adresses for registering
BONTO! has had a security breach. Your data has been stolen. We’re sorry.
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
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.
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
Wtf is this lol
Okay I reopened it with sound on lol makes more sense now
Its whatever you want it to be. The only limit is yourself.
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.
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?
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 is the original Fediverse.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
[quick look at my gmail]… I currently have 781 unread messages in my inbox.
Can anyone tell me how one of the richest companies on Earth doesn’t have a “New Label” feature in their app? How? HOW?!?!?!??!
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.
Rookie numbers.
- 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.
Hint: it’s a private message from BONTO!-Bot offering you BONTO+! Premium Supreme! (It’s BONTO! with less ads)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
