You walk into the dark alley periodically looking back to see nothing but a dense fog. You meet your informant, shaking as they ask, "Is it safe to speak?" You announce in your best non-regional dialect, "Hey Google, Alexa, Cortana, Siri" and wait for a beep; "Good. We're alone."
All websites that attempt to validate my email address (or indeed any hand-typed data) before I have finished typing it, need to die in a fire. "alan@ is not a valid email address". I KNOW THIS. LET ME FINISH.
“it's on the shoulders of technologists to learn the lesson of EME: contributing to technologies that stop the public from adapting or auditing their tools is a profoundly unethical act, one that widens the gap between people with disabilities and the (temporarily) abled people who don't (yet) need to make those adaptations.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/disabilities-vs-drm-world-cup-edition #drm#copyright
If you happen to have a Lenovo Thinkpad X220 laptop and are willing to run Debian sid on it, it'd be helpful if you could try reproducing the problem and reporting it to the bug report.
Switching from email to something else -- Skype was mentioned in the discussions I witnessed -- doesn't help. It just means people keep failing to communicate with another tool.
Listened to a ranty discussion by relatives of in-laws about how email is useless and nobody can deal with it, when there's a dozen per day. Pretty soon you have an inbox with thousands of emails, and communication becomes impossible.
Didn't want to get into an argument, and so I kept my mouth shut.
#GTD and carefully trimming mailing list subscriptions works for me. I don't have inboxes with thousands of emails.
At one point I processed about 4000 mails per day, after spam filtering.