It seems to me that the world would be a much better place if targeted ads were simply forbidden. Likewise for targeted content.

> the actual email list, has barely changed in 20 years

That's about to change:

https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap

And with two clicks you can make it permanently visible.

Took me two years to accidentally find this. That's a usability sample.

Plus addressing is not unique to gmail nor it was invented by google.

For example, to enable plus addressing in postfix is only a matter of defining:

recipient_delimiter = +

> Cons: I don't like when it automatically creates notes for all phrases written in CamelCase. It is a wiki, but i don't use it as a true wiki, but as a bunch of notes.

There's a preference to ignore CamelCase:

https://i.imgur.com/88SZTY9.png

A more enjoyable version (transcript from the book):

http://b.johnwurth.com/aspen-20/

For maximum effect I also use:

* browser.compactmode.show=true - enable compact mode

* browser.menu.showViewImageInfo=true - show menu icons

What's running server side?

Doesn't matter. The client uses end-to-end encryption. That's kind of the whole point.

> They are mutually exclusive.

Well, Newton had lots of very kooky ideas. And yet...

Sir Isaac Newton, President of the Royal Society, an outsider? The same guy who published laws of motion and helped develop calculus, yet did not publish any of his religious or alchemic studies is a kook? I'm not sure what point you're making here.

And notably also didn't publish his work on calculus until after Leibnitz, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%E2%80%93Newton_calculu...

Yes, the same applies to newspapers and magazines online. We need a law demanding a legal digital deposit at least at the national level.

It is somewhat trivial to devise an API to be integrated in the publications pipelines to automatically and transparently submit new and modified articles to a central repository.