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I have a theory: It is impossible to have anonymous reliable email accounts nowadays. Today a lot of data are collected. For those data to have any value they
by gue7890dfg 5y ago
I have a theory:
It is impossible to have anonymous reliable email accounts nowadays.
Today a lot of data are collected. For those data to have any value they need to be quality data, so that they can be used. Many would think for AI, but what is more lucrative maybe is to sell them or services based on them to government intelligence in USA. Similarly, maybe government is also putting pressure that accounts of big providers are not mass used or hacked by adversaries. Google may have some hidden deals.
Starting with Facebook, Google, Microsoft as the biggest ones, you are forced by all means to have non-anonymous accounts. Google accounts measures point to one direction: tell them your identity. Make sure you are in that location, no VPN, tell them you phone number when you register an account, etc, so they know it is you for sure.
This makes it impossible to use Google, etc, anonymously. It is impossible to open any Google account, as I do not want to drop my VPN, or give them a phone number. I also have 2-3 accounts of Google open many years before, when these restriction were not so bad in place. I was relying on them for various things. I assume since a while, that I will loose access to those any moment and I am not using those much anymore.