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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • My government, my company, my former university and even my former highschool have all identified “understanding consent” as a significant social problem worthy of significant spending on PSAs and education programmes.

    But even as people are learning about how consent is like tea, they are being exposed every day to software and services that treat it as informed consent if you don’t dig into settings to disable something, don’t actively delete your account when they arbitrarily change their terms of service, or offer a “contract” with a piece of software you’ve already purchased that you can’t negotiate.

    It shouldn’t need to be said but…you don’t get to skip getting informed consent just because it would be difficult or time consuming or annoying or expensive.









  • I’ve been linked this review of email service privacy previously. Obviously everyone has their own threat model and you may not agree with theirs but I think it’s worth a read for services you may be interested in (or just the summary).

    I’ve used Mailbox.org and don’t care for their interface at all, but it also matters not one bit as I use Thunderbird exclusively to interact with my mailbox, as you plan to. I haven’t had any problem with spam but I am very picky who I give that address to.

    My personal opinion is that the provider should not matter - your address should be a privately registered domain and your emails should be end-to-end encrypted. Then your mail provider is little more than a forwarding server and the most crap one is not much worse than the best.