@ErikvanStraten @0xF21D @malanalysis

This is not an exclusive-or choice.

In fact, if there were a hypothetical technology that allowed the user to use a certificate for authentication, and manage it in a key ring and sync it safely between browsers, you'd still need your human user to opt in to use it, to demand sites provide it and to be knowledgeable enough to keep the cert secret.

They'd also need to know to not fax their cert to bad guys.

@nightoo
Sure, this site looks sketchy, but this is the platform the vendor decided to use, so either I put an email/phone into frobubook.io or snakgrabbr.io or I miss out on the band/concert/festival/event/flight/hotel/utility/job etc or I end up waiting in the cold in the "walkups" line for 90 minutes.

Everybody and their dog want an email address, and they'll look at you like you have two heads if you tell them you don't have one.

Worse, they'll have no way to record that you said "no", so they'll just casually ask you that every time you stop by to do whatever it is that they're for... Now imagine you're taking medication either that causes or treats irritability, and the chemist asks you that every fucking god damn time

Oh, and you have to give your email to create an account on the site that prints custom "Fuck you I don't have an email address" t-shirts too.

@skaphle @EndlessMason @ErikvanStraten @0xF21D @malanalysis

Still am.

@skaphle @EndlessMason @ErikvanStraten @0xF21D @malanalysis @pluralistic

A good promo for #Thunderbird , it’s a very good email client. I use it as well (not that my use is any recommendation whatsoever next to Cory’s :)