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Re:Mailinator.com: Anatomy of a Spammy Campaign by citrablue on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:02AM (#17538879)
An existing email account is something worth protecting. It's OK to allow a few extra false negatives while signing up, compare to accessing an existing account.
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Re:Mailinator.com: Anatomy of a Spammy Campaign by pygy_ on Monday July 16, 2018 @11:42AM (#17542181)
Wouldn't it be up to me to decide if I want to enable 2fa?

Provided Google has a lot of info about me, they can probably tie those accounts to me anyway, but I'd rather not formally associate them with my public identity.

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