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Did you create a new “bogus”email address when you signed up for their service to hide your identity? Or were you okay with giving them your real email address
by INeedMoreRam 4y ago
Did you create a new “bogus”email address when you signed up for their service to hide your identity?
Or were you okay with giving them your real email address?
I feel uncomfortable potentially having my searches linked to my real email and/or name.
- t0bia_s 4y agoWho cares about email when you gave them your real name with credit card.
- vile_wretch 4y agoNot really an answer to your question but I have my password manager integrated with my email host and can generate a new masked email with one click when creating new accounts. Not sure how it is as far as privacy (Bitwarden can't read my email, only create new masked emails - the option to allow read access is provided however) but as far as being able to disable problematic addresses on a whim without changing my main is pretty great.
- gabeio 4y agoI don’t but honestly I don’t search for things often that I need anonymity, I use kagi more because it seems better than the other search engines at getting the results I care about at the top and not a huge amount of ads or junk posts at the top. They claim to keep the searches as anonymous as possible, and they have been through an audit so hopefully true.
- hosteur 4y agoNever mind the email address. If you pay them they have your real identity. This is really what prevents me from using them. Although the search does seem to be superb.
- t0bia_s 4y agoExactly this.
- Melatonic 4y agoI am not the OP but I did not just out of convenience. If I really wanted to search for something I was extra paranoid about I probably would be taking more precautions anyway.
- DavideNL 4y agoYour e-mail address is not relevant; You can be tracked anyway, by browser fingerprinting, etc.