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[–] [email protected] 233 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Then 3 years later

Brooks, Herman and Anderson Law firm - Bonto data privacy class action lawsuit

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Get your .0012¢ for a $7 processing fee!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That hasn't been my experience. My portion of the settlement is usually about $100.00. it's insulting, but it still spends.

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

bonto has settled and agreed to provide one year of credit monitoring

[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 week ago (5 children)

BONTO! was sooo good. Like it really improved the Slorpiness.

[–] radiohead37 50 points 1 week ago

No way! BONTO! was just the enshitfication of Slorp by a private equity firm.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

<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!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (8 children)

<unwarranted rage No way...

... </rage

This is the wildest syntax I've ever seen! At first, I thought it was unparsable nonsense. Then I realized that your tags are capital-letter-terminated. Is this from a language I don't know or have you unwittingly cooked up a piece of a cursed programming language? If the latter, I propose Slorp as its name.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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

Deleting your data for you. Their copy is theirs.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Subject: your billing statement is now available

Body: Log on to our website because we couldn't possibly JUST FUCKING TELL YOU HOW MUCH ELECTRICITY OR WHATEVER YOU USED THIS MONTH DIRECTLY IN THE E-MAIL; no, we've got to play fucking games and make you do extra work and stop you from automatically having a record of your shit without having to deliberately log on to the platform we control and download them individually with 30 seconds worth of clicking between each one.

WTF is even the point of the email if there's NO USEFUL INFORMATION IN IT?!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's annoying, but from a data security point of view it makes sense, personal information like that is more secure behind the login on their website than in an e-mail in plain text.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

BONTO! has had a security breach. Your data has been stolen. We're sorry.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Your privacy is very important to BONTO! Please give us permission to share your data with the following 465 companies

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The same could be said for any form of communication, really.

I remember when phones used to be good. Now it's all

  • We have important information about your car's warranty.
  • Here's information on new solar panel installation that doesn't work with your home / location.
  • You've been selected to answer a quick 15 question survey.

I remember when mail used to be good. Now it's all

  • I'm a disgraced Nigerian prince and I need your help to protect my multi-million dollar fortune.
  • Here's all the important sales WalMart is having this week! Don't miss out!
  • Here's your electricity bill that you're enrolled in auto-pay for. No action is needed on your part, but we're sending you this 12-page summary anyway.
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Will happen to every new medium eventually. It's inevitable under capitalism.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait what? BONTO is shutting down??? Aww man...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I only really liked it when it was Slorp. When they changed over to BONTO that's when the enshitification started. Where my Slorp homies at?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My current personal hell is

Log in to use Splurp™️!

USERNAME: Bongo Password: Schleeb209-!AA12

An E-Mail has been sent to [email protected] with a link to sign in [click link] Please confirm with 2FA!

Now do this again every fucking hour on this service you use all day you fucking cow.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

bc work emails need to be more secure than classified war plans... for some fucking reason

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Actually no, I don't remember when email was ever useful and I do remember dial-up internet 😂

It used to be chain emails "Send this to 10 other people or YOU'LL DIE" and people forwarding other people's bad picture slideshows and even worse uplifting inspiring cards without looking at them, and now it's automated slop.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Those meme email chains were annoying at the time, but kinda endearing to look back on in retrospect.

I kept getting added onto ones my mum and dad were getting from a bunch of their friends that had people's random corporate/work email addresses included and stuff.....

It was a simpler time, when boomers hadn't discovered social media yet, and were making their own fun without Facebook and without the algorithm.

If someone offered me a chance to magic social media away like it never happened, and the price I had to pay was unfunny memes spamming my inbox, it's a price I'd pay gladly.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You don' hate email; you hate capitalism.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Click here to unsubscribe. Great; it will take 4-10 days. It never unsubscribes.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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 [email protected], 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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Specifically make sure that the "subscribe to newsletter and offers" is NOT checked.

Get a marketing email from them within 24 hours anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don't forget

  • "BONTO! is sneakily roping you into a binding private arbitration clause because they're planning to do some real shady shit that'll affect a critical mass of users!

(At the bottom of the email)

...You can still opt to use the public justice system that already exists if you disagree with this. You simply must send your disagreement in writing upon a clay tablet delivered by a specific courier to a remote P.O Box in Illinois within the next 32 business hours.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

I do miss BONTO! though. Not gonna lie.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)
  • Someone has sent you a private messages on BONTO! But we won't tell you what it says or you won't go to the website.
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

Join BONTO! plus today and experience our latest, AI enchanced premium features.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago

501 CONVENIENT SERVER ERROR

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Thank you for confirming that you are reachable at your listed email address! We will not contact you anymore, but we have already sold this information to our corporate sponsors, have the shittiest day imaginable!:-)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Slorp was so much better before they changed their name to Bonto. Only young people prefer Bonto, and they're idiots.

Bonto killed Slorp, Bonto is the only reason it shutdown.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I have a mail account I only use for humans and each mail is a delightful surprise 😁

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

What the hell is BONTO! I don't remember making an account on BONTO! Why do I have a BONTO! account is someone impersonating me WAS MY EMAIL HACKED??? Oh wait it's just a rebrand of that one website that forced me to create an account 10 years ago.

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