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Since you can have unlimited amounts of email addresses for free, they are not the ideal identifier for products for which there are “free up to a certain point
by laurex 5y ago
Since you can have unlimited amounts of email addresses for free, they are not the ideal identifier for products for which there are “free up to a certain point” aspects or “we’d like to make sure we’re dealing with an individual person” aspects? Though surely in the latter case something better than an email OR phone number is possible.
- lxgr 5y agoIf "proof-of-x" is desired for spam account prevention: Sure, happy to provide that as a user. Just don‘t also tangle it to my user ID and/or 2FA recovery.
- musicale 5y ago> they are not the ideal identifier for products They are a pretty decent identifier for users. Facebook demanded my phone number for "security" purposes then turned around and used it as a unique identifier to tie me to purchase records from various businesses (e.g. Ticketmaster - why am I not surprised?) that apparently have shady tracking/advertising deals with Facebook. This sort of information misuse and tracking (not to mention spam) is precisely what "sign in with Apple" was supposed to fix in terms of e-mail addresses, but it's currently instantly neutralized by SMS "verification" since it's a huge pain to get a different phone number just to prevent Facebook from using it as a tracking identifier. (I guess this reminds me why I have said "no" to multiple inquiries from Facebook. The thought of being told to implement a dark pattern as part of your job is extremely unpleasant. Facebook's confusing anti-privacy settings are another example.) And it's not just Facebook. This is seeping into other completely unexpected applications; for example I bought a game controller whose driver software setup demanded a mobile number for "verification" purposes. No, just no.