They most likely won’t work. Just speculation, but I would imagine most software that “needs” information like GPS don’t care that its on or off, they care that they try to pull data and there is none.

At least they acknowledge that cookie consent does nothing and paywalls are ridiculous.

My comment was in context of existing business infrastructure. You’re right that most of us don’t have a fax machine, but many organizations still do and therefore it can be very convenient for B2B communication. And in the case of orgs that want faxes but you don’t have one, ifax is a thing as well.

I’m not making an argument for faxes, I’m just saying for an outdated technology it’s stayed quite useful in the modern era.

Not really safer, they just work with the existing infrastructure. Personally, I think there’s still a place for fax, it’s essentially a convenient way to scan and transmit, and these days you can get them to your email or phone (not in healthcare because that’s not HIPAA compliant). Sure, not anybody’s first choice, but I think it’s still valid.

I tried, but my wife put a stop to it.

Thanks for sharing. I’ve not yet delved into reading it in depth but appreciate your goals and the fact that you documented it all.

Do you have to verify your identity? I know in the past you had that option but didn’t have to do it. But they just changed their terms of service so is this part of that?

I agree that going fedi doesn’t automatically solve the issues. However, moving it away from a multi tiered paid platform (they really tailored it so they could do this) and controlling the bots/scam accounts would be a completely different experience. I think fedi would at least solve the first one, and I’d expect would help controlling the second.