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"Much as there are tools like 1Password for passwords, I think there should be like tools for usernames/emails." The way I read that is an aggregator for usern

by dfc 15y ago

"Much as there are tools like 1Password for passwords, I think there should be like tools for usernames/emails." The way I read that is an aggregator for usernames. How would that help anything? Or do you mean I change my username to a different sha1 string for each website? That seems like it would definitely hurt the social aspect of a lot of websites... "2fd4e1c67a2d28fced849ee1bb76e7391b93eb12 just checked in at Alice and Bob's Bar"

newman314 15y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of having unique emails per site. While usernames have a higher probability of being the same person across different sites, it's not guaranteed. twitter.com/ed may not be facebook.com/ed but foo@bar.com is definitely unique. The goal would be to make email one less piece of PII to aggregate you across sites as well as helping narrow down who is selling your info. I am well aware of the <username>+foo convention of gmail but it is trival to strip off the +foo part. This way, you still get mail that you want without having to give out your "real" email address. Maybe it's wasted effort but personally, I think there is some value there (for the people that care).