> They (FAANG, etc) are doing this to increase usage and profits, right? Yes. They're obfuscating the mechanisms that can be used to assess trustworthiness so

> They (FAANG, etc) are doing this to increase usage and profits, right? Yes. They're obfuscating the mechanisms that can be used to assess trustworthiness so they can sell it back to us as some kind of reputation or verification product. Email is a perfect example. If the from address wasn't moved around, hidden, and obfuscated, it would be easy to tell people "make sure Venmo emails are from @venmo.com" and that's the thing everyone would look for. Instead, there's an entire generation of people that don't know how to identify a from address and it opens the door to a paid verification platform instead.