[Bucephalus355]

Email today has grown very dark and is definitely not the fun whimsical world they mention it was when they started their business in the 1990's.

I vaguely remember this world. I was 10 before I understood that you could access the internet through a variety of ways, you didn't just have to use the default AOL browser my parents had.

Something disturbing regarding email though. Recently on Twitter I've seen ads for https://theXYZ.com, an email platform the purports to be both ad free and surveillance free mostly. This is not true for a few reasons technical reasons that most sysadmins can spot reading through their copy. More concerning though all of the pictures of their "company" and "data centers" appear to be stock images that have floated around on the internet for years. Who would do this and lie so brazenly?

[1123581321]

An upcoming service that should be more trustworthy, based on the reputation of Basecamp, is https://hey.com/

The entire premise seems to be that email was once fun and worry-free, and can become that again.

[pavel_lishin]

> Who would do this and lie so brazenly?

Any marketing team?