Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
by vmception on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:10AM
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Which is why you also dont tell the service your phone number or reuse an email address
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Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
by laurent92 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:28AM
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I wonder if Google has a backdoor API which lets group people by backup email. If one always creates an account with the previous email as a backup, the link is east to make.
That would be especially useful for censorship services across competitors: Although Google Facebook and Twitter compete, sharing the flagged accounts would allow recognizing the same user coming back with a different email address.
Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
by vmception on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:32AM
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who said anything about backup email
but sure? probably if you just alternate between a backup email tied to an email you use everywhere
Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
by pruski on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:23AM
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New email per every service you want to use? It shouldn’t be this complicated
Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
by reaperducer on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:33AM
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Sign In With Apple does exactly this — generates a fake e-mail address for each account, so the data harvesters never get your real one.
Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
by vmception on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:31AM
(#26214728)
no. new email for the same service to make a new account, even after deleting your old account.
a lot of people dont know how or why they get the same suggestions of people and dont want that.