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Re:The IAB loves tracking users. But it hates users tracking... by dale_glass on Monday January 16, 2023 @09:18AM (#34400867)
That can't be avoided short of having a mail service with plentiful full aliases on a shared domain. They could just use the heuristic that unless you're at one of the well known email providers like Gmail, your domain name might be personal and therefore count as part of your global identity, without even considering what comes before the @.

So it doesn't really matter much whether I go with [email protected], or [email protected].

To deal with that for good you'd need a pretty large set of domain names to use for this purpose.

Re:The IAB loves tracking users. But it hates users tracking... by fluidcruft on Monday January 16, 2023 @09:37AM (#34401044)
There are already a growing number of services that won't even allow you to sign up unless you have an email at one of the large services. I never noticed until I started using my personal domain to separate work/personal after changing jobs recently.
Re:The IAB loves tracking users. But it hates users tracking... by catiopatio on Monday January 16, 2023 @11:11AM (#34402059)
What are some examples?

I’ve been using my own domain since the late 90s, and I’ve never run into this.

Re:The IAB loves tracking users. But it hates users tracking... by MandieD on Monday January 16, 2023 @11:46AM (#34402484)
When I tried signing up for the SNL app a few years ago with snlnbc@[mydomain.com], and then [randomnickname]@[mydomain.com], it failed, but then worked with a GMail address.

Which is all kinds of ironic, because I'm old enough to remember when free emails like hotmail.com and gmail.com were rejected by a lot of sites!

Re:The IAB loves tracking users. But it hates users tracking... by et-al on Monday January 16, 2023 @11:54AM (#34402583)
From personal experience, "new" Flickr makes it difficult to signup when you use a personal domain versus one of the top 10 known email providers.