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For a large part of the population, losing their email account could be devastating. "Could" is deliberate, because once you lose it you wouldn't even know whet
by l0b0 7y ago
For a large part of the population, losing their email account could be devastating. "Could" is deliberate, because once you lose it you wouldn't even know whether anything important landed in your inbox. Like a personal update from a friend, or some official business you need to respond to within days. Can you imagine trying to remember every single friend, business and government agency which might conceivably contact you, and figuring out how to contact each of them to let them know of your new email, plus getting them to re-send anything since you were blocked? It could put a wrench into someone's life for days or weeks.
- root_axis 7y agoI understand the problems losing access to your email can cause, in fact, I have experienced this exact problem several years ago. It took me 3 weeks to recover my email, and after that experience I switched from gmail to protonmail.
- colejohnson66 7y agoMost people won’t switch until something like this happens to them. We shouldn’t go, “just switch!” because it won’t work. And we definitely shouldn’t go, “screw you if you didn’t switch because you didn’t listen”
- root_axis 7y agoYeah, the reason most people don't switch is because it doesn't happen to most people, ever. If you don't like a company's service you switch to a different one, that's how capitalism works, especially services you pay nothing to use.