alt Hacker NewsE-mail used to be provided by your isp and there were enough different ISPs ( at least in my country ) to not have a duopoly.
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data-ottawa • yesterday at 5:09 PM
The problem with ISP based email is once you're a customer with their email you can never switch.
Yes, but they didn't develop it. ISP email required you to configure IMAP or more likely POP in an email application and did nothing to combat spam. Google came along and offered gmail, easy sign up, no configuration, used your web browser so no other applications to install, spam largely filtered out, just worked.