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The problem with self hosted email is that your domain becomes a unique (or near-unique with a few domains) tracking reference.
by r2b2 4y ago
The problem with self hosted email is that your domain becomes a unique (or near-unique with a few domains) tracking reference.
- jen729w 4y agoOnly if the entity on the other end understands this though, right? Which they probably don’t. Otherwise everyone @example.com is the same person.
- r2b2 4y agoIt's worth a lot of money for the ad-tech (consumer tracking) industry to understand. If a domain only occurs once in a user database, it's likely to be a personal domain. A data broker that sees the same domain in a few different datasets (once in each) can be quite confident that the domain is an individual's.
- toxik 4y agoThey cannot know if it’s a small domain like a business, or a personal catchall. It works fine.