The tale of "convenience" is a bit of a trick. A lot of corporate provided services maybe were somewhat convenient a decade ago, but they are now increasingly authoritarian, and people tend to ignore how much time they steal.

Total number of hours spent solving captchas or consent screens with #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc apps: 0 (zero). Nada. Zilch.

Compare with the estimated 819 million hours which humans spent with Google's recaptcha alone boingboing.net/2025/02/07/reca…

How Google turned 'I'm not a robot' into a massive surveillance system - Boing Boing

New research reveals Google's reCAPTCHA system primarily serves as a tracking tool, generating billions in revenue while offering minimal protection against bots.

^{Mark Frauenfelder (Happy Mutants, LLC.)}