I get your point and it is reasonable. We are paying today. However, I believe part of the problem is that when you could make money from email, it froze. The evolution stopped. We could easily evolve email if ...
The "if..." is one of the two VERY BIG INTERNET PROBLEMS. How do you pay for things? We have an answer which pollutes. Ads => enshitification. Like recipes for how to boil and egg that are three pages of ads, and then are wrong. But we now have AI, right?
The other problem is identities on the internet. This is hard. But email? Nope. Login with Apple? Nope. Login with Google? Double, Quadruple Nope.
In the real world we have both privacy AND accountability. And. It is very difficult to maintain two identities in real life.
Privacy on the internet? Nope. Accountability? Only if you are invested in your account. Privacy and Accountability together? Nope. Two identities? You can easily do 100's or more. freg@g*.com, greg33222@g*.com, janesex994@g*.com, dogs4humanity@g*.com etc.
The "if..." is one of the two VERY BIG INTERNET PROBLEMS. How do you pay for things? We have an answer which pollutes. Ads => enshitification. Like recipes for how to boil and egg that are three pages of ads, and then are wrong. But we now have AI, right?
The other problem is identities on the internet. This is hard. But email? Nope. Login with Apple? Nope. Login with Google? Double, Quadruple Nope.
In the real world we have both privacy AND accountability. And. It is very difficult to maintain two identities in real life.
Privacy on the internet? Nope. Accountability? Only if you are invested in your account. Privacy and Accountability together? Nope. Two identities? You can easily do 100's or more. freg@g*.com, greg33222@g*.com, janesex994@g*.com, dogs4humanity@g*.com etc.