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Ironically, I use unroll.me which arguably works like your last sentence - while it's saves me only "a few seconds", it still saves me from having to stare at t
by seltzered_ 13y ago
Ironically, I use unroll.me which arguably works like your last sentence - while it's saves me only "a few seconds", it still saves me from having to stare at the less-important mail when passively looking at my inbox.
Also, it's more than a few seconds depending on your situation. You have to walk to a central mailbox for many newer suburbs. A rarer scenario, when I lived in Tahoe I had to drive down the mountain I lived to a P.O.Box - usually just to throw junk mail in the trash.
- krapp 13y agoYou can find a use case for just about everything. There's a use case for PRISM but that doesn't make it a good idea. The problem is, for added convenience (which might, like if you have to drive down a mountain, be more than minor) you're giving a startup complete control over your identity and just trusting them not to exploit that. If Outbox decides one day to censor the content, or sell your data, or if a third party pays them to get copies of your mail, what can you do if they acquiesce? If the US Postal Service announced it was going to pre-screen and digitize all outgoing mail, and only send people digital copies of everything but the 'spam', everyone would be screaming bloody tyranny. Admittedly, though, i've never had to drive down a mountain to get my mail and I might just be too paranoid.