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It’s also a privacy concern. A single email address ties your identity across platforms, which may be convenient, but could potentially be abused.
by avnigo 5y ago
It’s also a privacy concern. A single email address ties your identity across platforms, which may be convenient, but could potentially be abused.
- gsnedders 5y agoIt's not just a potential concern: this is how a variety of ad services are starting to track users across sites (typically via a hashed email address, but given the ubiquity of email/password dumps, de-anonymising is relatively practical).
- Nextgrid 5y agoStarting? This has happened for ages. Ad companies' customers willingly share the email addresses in hashed form so the ad companies can correlate this against their own lists (by doing the same hashing and checking for a match). The same happens with phone numbers as well.