The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here, and can we go back?

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The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here, and can we go back?
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These days with how tied to your identity email is, using an ISP provided email is like self-imposed vendor lock-in though. A friend who uses an ISP provided email just switched ISPs and it caused havoc - bank logins, power company logins, etc

The ISP I'm with allows you to keep the email address indefinitely. But I'm sure there are many ISPs who don't do that.

That seems unusually mature and consumer-oriented for an ISP

It's such a reasonable a policy I'm finding it hard to believe, unless there's a clause that they get a kidney, or are allowed to show up and break your ankles, or are taking ownership of your first born child or something.