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[–] [email protected] 204 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Don't forget the inevitable "3 months ago we were made aware of a breach of the BONTO! servers. What information was taken? Bet you'd like to know wouldn't you. What have we done about this situation? Fuck you, that's what."

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago (1 children)

BUT . . .But. To make it up to you we’ve also sold your info to a “Privacy Lock” company who will sell you something imaginary for as long as you pay them. That’ll totally fix it.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

3 months later; privacy lock company is breached

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Oh it was an Eastern European shell this whole time and they have my social security number for some reason

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

23 and Me customer here, and I couldn't relate more. When I reached out to support to ask what data was stolen and how much they were planning on compensating me for having my genome leaked to the web, their answer was basically "We have no idea what you're talking about. lol fuck you"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

You can't use this service unless you give us your social security number. Whoops! Your SSN was stolen three months ago and we just found out.

[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Don’t forget the 4500 emails suggesting you upgrade to slorp pro-premium-plus-max

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

You make fun of this but I really had bonto pro-premium-plus-max and it comes with many benefits like not getting these mails anymore

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

Then when you finally upgrade to premium plus max lifetime, the acquisition happens and lifetime licenses get cancelled.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"You have 17 messages in your Slorp-box! Click here to log in"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"Loser McDouchebag from high school recently Slorped! Click here to read it!"

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 month ago (1 children)

*Your 2FA login code for SLORP

*Your password reset link for SLORP

*Your password reset link for SLORP

*You have (2) new messages from other SLORP users

*There has been a login attempt from a new device on SLORP

*Your SLORP password may have been compromised

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Click here to unsubscribe from Slorp marketing emails. First log in. Forgot password? Click here to reset. Hmm, doesn't appear to be a user account with that email address. Create an account? Check your email for the activation link. Confirm your contact information. Consent to tracking cookies? Manage notifications. Unsubscribe from all? We're sad to see you go!

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You could just do the “report spam” if the unsubscribe link doesn’t immediately work.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah, the CAN-SPAM act, as far as I understand it, doesn't allow them to force you to make an account just to unsubscribe.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Thats assuming they obey it, and that its US based and under US law jurisdiction.

and as I learned with the national do not call registry, it is utterly meaningless and does nothing to prevent the issue at the best of times.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I always report spam without unsubscribing. It fks up their score with google.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That, and there's a high likelyhood the only thing the unsubscribe button would do is giving the spammers the valuable information that this email address is actually in use.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

/> reset password

"hmm, there doesn't appear to be a user account with that email address"

/> Makes new account

"User account with that email exists. Reset password?"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Try password

Incorrect credentials

Reset password

Fill in the password you want

Password can't be the same as previous password

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 month ago (26 children)

Remember when email was useful? I remember when it was magical!

Time for a story from the ancient times. I had this idea and asked my professor for advice. He said he knew a person on the other side of the world who would know all about it. “This is his ‘email’ address.”

I had never heard about ‘email’ so I needed to learn what it was and how to send one. I wrote my message and off it went. The very next morning I had a reply. One of the best experts on a topic I was keen about had shared their thoughts from the other side of the world, just like that.

In that time, a long time ago as you’ll appreciate, that interaction was magical.

In an instant I understood the power of the Usenet. A while later and with a couple of additional protocols they started calling that the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

...
...
The INTERNET is shutting down (?)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I remember in like 1997 or so, my friend's dad got VoIP working on his computer, and we would talk to random people from around the world. I still have fond memories of my first conversation. It was someone in Australia! All the way on the other side of the planet, and we were talking in real time, FOR FREE! I've been a computer nerd ever since.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Every goddamn time...

☐ I would like to be contacted for marketing purposes

Next day...

Here's that marketing email you requested!

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago

Business contaminates everything useful with endless appeals to your attention.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago

You forgot the part where BONTO leaks user information, and now you get a torrent of spam...

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"Thank you for your pre-paid lifetime subscription to Slorp! Unfortunately, after the acquisition by BONTO!, we have made the difficult decision not to honor these Slorp Platinum accounts going forward. But please enjoy a 15% discount on your first month of BONTO! Premium+! (Have you seen our stock price?)"

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd argue that email is as useful as regular mail. I get about 2 letters a year written by a person. The rest is bills and marketing.

Email is basically a central notification hub for users, and I'd much prefer that than having to log into each specific app to be notified of things.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Linkedin also send you emails even if you repeatedly turn them off

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Add it to your spam filter. Have it auto forward the email to LinkedIn’s customer support email with a request that they stop if you wanna be extra.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Honey, I live to be extra.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

signs into portal

ding!

"New sign-on to Grek Ultra Product Manager Plus!"

Why is this the default

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Security alert: Login from a new unknown device!" - it's the same computer on the same network as the previous 300 logins!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

How dare you use a browser that doesn't let us track the fuck out of you! Delete cookies and cache every time!?

You deserve this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ie. Fuck you for deleting our cookies

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

THats not true, its also a bunch of

"HOT DEAILS ON (item you just talked to a friend about half an hour ago that they somehow magically know about in ways that should terrify every fucking person within 500 feet of a digital device) AT HOTDEALS426424346423.COM.CO.EU.RU/HOTDEALS/TOTALLYNOTASCAM/SUCKERSCLICKTHIS/HOTDEAL4U.COM"

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I did not intend that to resolve to a clickable link, lol.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Love that Firefox highlights this cursed domain name

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Oh don't worry, testing if a string is a valid URL is easy, just use the following easy to remember regular expression:

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I remember when Slorp was Qooble.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Man I miss good old Qooble.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Slorp has detected that you haven't opened our emails for a long time. It's very important to slorp that you keep your contact information updated. Please login Here to verify your slorp account details.

-- the fact slorp gets upset that I have tracking pixels disabled so they can't monitor my email usage is one big reason they can go slorp themselves

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

It seems like it's been a while since you last checked in with BONTO! We'd love your feedback on how we can improve. Log in to get started!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (9 children)

i finally recently discovered email aliases and the + feature on addresses-- best invention ever

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

At least then it was only Bill Gates personally sending me chain letters

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I miss Slorp. All the modern copies of Slorp suck.

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