People used to have party lines and leave their doors unlocked too, but it turns out the world is filled with bad actors and other assorted shitty people.
Email naturally followed this evolution.
Email naturally followed this evolution.
Switch Moldova to almost any country (or even a state that isn't California or Washington), and it's the same story everywhere
You shouldn't own your car or your house, give them to all the corporations as well.
This is also true for like 99% of the landmass of America.
As soon as you want to do business with Outlook's customers, you play by their rules.
"They're allowed to do it" is one of those things that doesn't really bear saying so much because that's already been implicitly established. Nobody is claiming what they're doing is illegal, so how does this add anything of value? Who is still unaware that corporations will use their size and market control to their benefit?
"Their rules" seems to be turning into "you spend money to another corporation that we trust".
I've never even had the key to mine. I've lived here over a decade.