You forgot the part where BONTO leaks user information, and now you get a torrent of spam…
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.
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).
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.
I considered buying some space from Google since their “never run out of space” thing is long gone from the beta I signed up for.
But then I just nuked my whole storage. Damn that was nice.
Throw that heap out. It’s not healthy.
Well it’s not like the entire 100 gb is email; there’s also actual things stored there.
I also get and send a LOT of larger, work related emails. And I need to keep old stuff for reference. It just wouldn’t work with the basic 15 gb; I’d need to clean it out every three months or so. With the 100, I just chuck out a bunch of stuff every two years or so.
i finally recently discovered email aliases and the + feature on addresses-- best invention ever
With Gmail you can add a plus to the end of your email address followed by a label I.E. example+label@gmail.com. This works the same as your regular email but you can use the plus label to filter or automatically delete mails. It’s also useful when you don’t trust a company to add the company name after the plus to see of they sell your email to third parties.
If you give your email as you+amazon@email.com then it will still receive it at you@email.com but now you know who sold it if you start getting spam sent to it.
this page explains aliases better than i could https://simplelogin.io/
and this page is for plus addresses https://eit.ces.ncsu.edu/2023/02/gmail-plus-addressing-the-hidden-feature-that-can-help-you-get-more-out-of-your-inbox/