On 6/16/20 3:28 PM, Peter Reutemann wrote:
'The Basecamp cofounder and creator of web application framework Ruby on Rails David Heinemeier Hansson has become increasingly outspoken about Big Tech's privacy violations and monopolistic tendencies. Now he's inviting you to join the cause -- by switching your email provider. From a report: ... -- source: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/06/15/2034209
Cheers, Peter
$99/yr seems like a lot for this service. I pay my web host $95.40/year and that includes hosting, domain name registration, unlimited email accounts, mailing lists, ssl let's encrypt certificate, etc. I also hate the way email services try to organize my inbox into conversations. Makes it difficult for me to find emails by date. Thunderbird by default does not download remote content unless asked. It makes me wonder if there is an imap or pop3 interface, and how using an external mail agent affects the spy pixel removal feature. I don't know what Gmail's "Promotions" tab is (my school account is GMail), but I do know that Google has been clear that they scan your emails for keywords that could be used for advertising purposes (and who knows what else). I can't tell from the description if these guys are planning to do the same thing. I love the way the marketing folks are always trying to "help" me by "making online advertising more relevant" as if I'm just crestfallen that the advertising I'm subjected to every day hasn't been tailored to my tastes and circumstances. It's too bad that PGP/GnuPG never took off. In 20 years of trying to securely communicate with banks, lawyers, and employers, the only person who ever replied with an email encrypted with my public key was a LUG organizer who said it was the first time he had ever received an email with a public key attached.