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There's a handful of email hosting companies that have huge market share. If Microsoft and Google worked together they could implement any new email standard th
by patmorgan23 5y ago
There's a handful of email hosting companies that have huge market share. If Microsoft and Google worked together they could implement any new email standard they want and everyone would have to follow.
- bombcar 5y agoExactly. If Microsoft or Google or both wanted to create a standard for Guaranteed Delivery and pile all sorts of stuff on it, they could. If they did it right, it might even be a good thing. But there's not really much desire/push for it, because spam got "mostly solved" well enough. You'd want it to be a feature-add (if enabled and used, your bank can send you secure statements direct to your email box that nobody else can read, etc) so you actually gain something; but then you have the whole "Google and Microsoft have MITM themselves on almost all email" problem anyway.
- m348e912 5y ago>>spam got "mostly solved" well enough. Did it though? Gmail is still having a tough time blocking all spam.
- seanw444 5y agoAnd most people with independently-run mail servers are screwed because it's "potential spam". Now you have almost no choice but to use a big tech platform if you want your email to be of any use. Which is ridiculous, and completely antithetical to a federated platform