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Yeah I mean I'd get rid of that and email entirely if I could but unfortunately there are legal and societal expectations.
We need email. It's one of the few protocols that are 100% in the user's control. I run my own mail server. I can't do the same for whatsapp.
We've added a lot of checks to email (SSL, DKIM, DMARC, SPF) so it's very easy to identify spam these days. It's also easy to avoid giving any two companies the same email address. That's something much harder to avoid with a phone number.
For 2FA, per-account email addresses and authenticor apps are the best approach for privacy.
No, but you can do the same for a wide variety of chat apps.
LOL then why is my inbox constantly full of spam?
Platforms like SimpleX solve spam by requiring participants to have an invitation to message you. You can either send them a 1-time invitation or you can use a semi-permanent one that can be posted publicly and rolled as necessary without losing contact with anyone you've already connected with, so by the time it's mined somehow and sold to some company, it's already changed.
LOL what? No they're not. How does an email protect your privacy over just a username?
Zoomer spotted, opinion rejected. Email >>>>> chat apps.
Haha, not even close
Wrong again. But please, do go on.