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
BONTO! has had a security breach. Your data has been stolen. We’re sorry.
Your privacy is very important to BONTO! Please give us permission to share your data with the following 465 companies
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.
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!
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
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.
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What about ip over avian carriers? I think it’s better 😅
But yes. Email is great. :3
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.
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<unwarranted rage No way, BONTO! sucked. You couldn’t even Slorp your entire friends list anymore, and they added all of those BONTOgrams for no reason. We disagree on a topic, so I despise you now and your entire genetic line. </rage
But you should really try NeWSlarP, a FLOSS fork of Slorp by the original developer that brings back both SlorpTokens and Schlarpmänner!
No way! BONTO! was just the enshitfication of Slorp by a private equity firm.
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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
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.
You don’ hate email; you hate capitalism.
BONTO! will be deleting your data soon
Log into BONTO! to save your data
BONTO! will be deleting your data soon
BONTO! will be deleting your data soon
BONTO! has archived your data
Photobucket moment.
They forgot the newsletters you get twice a day* (*thrice if you opted out of newsletters) and the deluge of spam when everyone at Bonto sold your email address while they were going out of business.
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.
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*
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.
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.
Mail is made so much better when using an alias system like SImpleLogin from Proton. Just create a new mail for everything (except Atlassian the idiots) and when they start doing bullshit you can terminate the email.
Enabling OTP code 2FA will also reduce the verification emails
I love email, recently started subscribing to artists’ and illustrators’ (non-substack) newsletters and it’s a great way to stay informed if they otherwise only have fascist social media accounts. The newsletters somehow also feel more personal than meny social media posts.
I understand the struggle. I do. I still have an “Under construction” page on the domain I bought like a decade ago because I want a decent artist portfolio site and Wordpress is not the super easy dream they all claimed so I’ve nuked it like a dozen times. (And tried Grav, and Hugo, and…)
But seriously WHY do so many great artists like, even ones who could afford hosting a dedicated page, ONLY have an Instagram?! (And now a TikTok ugh). One AI-decided account ban or rebrand or algorithm change or whatever and their entire portfolio and audience are just gone.
It’s really sad that there aren’t more non-developer targeted FOSS projects for just getting a halfway decent page going. All those sites like Wix or Square charge a ridiculous amount and still give you a bloated mess that doesn’t function unless people allow tons of chonky JavaScript.
/rant lol…
Ooof, so much this. Artists only having Insta is only topped by antifascist (and similar: eco, anti-racism etc.) groups only posting on Insta and FB but nowhere else +___+
I also loathe that even if artists have a website chances are above 90% that they’re Squarespace so they don’t have RSS feeds meaning I’ll never see new cool stuff that they might post since I’ll never remember going to their site again, but if it would just pop up in my feed reader that would be just too cool, I guess.
Not sure if it would really be an alternative to Insta/Squarespace for creative people but I loooove https://neocities.org/browse (do they have RSS feeds? I need to check).
I got an email the other day from Reddit about their privacy policy in the email account I made specifically for Lemmy and have not used AT ALL for Reddit. It is the only unexpected email I’ve ever had at this address and it made me wonder if someone else made a reddit account using my email. But then, it’s not publicly visible on Lemmy, afaik. Is it somewhere?
I too got an email about policy change. What’s weird is that I did not get such email on my main email, which is used for my reddit account, but I did get that email on another email that I mostly use to sign up on random sites. That email said it affects a reddit account by the name I never heard before and it was empty (zero posts/comments), created 2-3 years ago, so that was weird
