[Fnoord]

I don't like it. All kind of legit services use email, such as Steam when you made a purchase, or health service. The idea that they won't move the weight of the loss to you, is ludicrous. Ergo, price goes up, and you either get paid or lose out more. It is a race to the bottom, kind of like using Brave to block ads and show their own.

It also adds to the adagium that all spam solutions ultimately do not work, and Bill Gates proposed all of them (a meme, too).

Furthermore, email is a broken protocol not because of federation (something alternatives usually lack) but because of lack of E2EE.

[Guestmodinfo]

I don't need E2EE on my email even though I know govts and corporations are reading my email. But I also want that recruiter email or email from zoom telling me if they are going to give me discount on my next payment cycle. And most people will put zoom, steam, and any other services like bank and govt agencies in the white list. So no costs will not rise. I don't use steam so even if steam pays money to send me mail with their offers , still I will delete it and they understand that. So unless it's a recruitment offer from steam they don't need to pay money to send mail to me. So prices won't rise because corporations will only rely on customers who are white listing them. Anyone else they will not send so overall the prices will go down rather than go up. You may think but how will Steam get new customers if not flooding the planet by emails. They would turn to influencers and affiliates. Maybe they already use them.