Amju Wolf @ amju_wolf @pawb.social

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Yeah, joke's on the commenter; Google had had device attestation for phones for ages now and it's also terrible. Many apps will outright refuse to work if you have a non-typical phone (rooted, some obscure hardware or custom OS).

It's not that bad but definitely not a solution for everyone. And you probably still don't want to do it for your primary mail unless you're otherwise extremely well versed in doing so, up to and including running multiple servers for redundancy.

They won't even have to force them this time, they'll do it voluntarily because it would mean they can serve unblockable ads, track users much better, and for banks it would actually increase security for the user (but also force you to consume their content how they want, preventing stuff like accessibility extensions).

Democracy is an illusion, especially in places like the US. There are so many abstraction layers that even if you "win" you are really poorly represented.

What if it's your bank's website? Or email provider? Or literally anything else you actually have to choose and can't pick? "It's okay because I don't think it affects me / I can ignore it" is always a bad reason to allow a bad thing happen.

You can take it a step further and include a please note my email address has changed in your signature

Email has a special header for this called "Reply-To" which is respected by pretty much every client. When anyone replies to your mail they won't even realize it's to another address than they received the mail from.

Also you don't need to keep it for search history. Download all your mail with imap to some proper mail client and you can move it to a new provider if you really want to.

Get your own domain. You'll actually have to pay for mail by then, but considering it's one of the services many people rely on a shitton it's not that bad to pay $10 towards it. It will also mean you can switch providers at any time without much hassle.

I agree in theory, but if we want to attract regular people from Reddit, this is really bad - if one day they wake up and don't see half of the communities they expect they'll just be pissed and probably leave entirely.