Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address

Re:Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your emai... by jszymborski on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:19PM (#14598220)

> more easily traceable to you

Depends who is tracking you.

If I register some non-personally-identifiable domain "e.g.: bumblebutt.example" and use a WHOIS proxy, you're can only be given up by a registrar... which usually means a warrant.

Still paranoid? Pay for the domain using bitcoin you got in exchange for cash/services (there are a lot of registrars that take bitcoin).

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Re:Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your emai... by Psilidae on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:50PM (#14598496)

Its certainly more traceable from the perspective of metadata aggregation. If you were looking at the users from multiple sites, you could easily consider "*@bumblebutt.example" to be one person thus linking all accounts together.

The benefit of a public site is that you can't use the hostname as an identifer for a single person.

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