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Re:Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your emai... by nialv7 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @02:50AM (#14601427)
You are not solving the privacy problem. You can be easily identified by your custom domain, unless there're a couple thousand people using it.
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Re:Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your emai... by secmax on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @04:02AM (#14601814)
That depends on your definition of "solution". The scheme protects you (to a certain degree) from automated creation of inter-site profiles. The reason is, only very few people employ (a variant of) this strategy, so trying to "deanonymize" is costly and usually not worth it economically.
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