Re:The IAB loves tracking users. But it hates users tracking...
by account42 on Monday January 23, 2023 @06:54AM
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> I suppose this is the end of my almost 2 decades of using youtube to host videos.
As a user I can only hope that more people do stop using YouTube, preferrably choosing something that serves video files directly instead.
> As for email spam prevention, I've run my own mailserver with a domain since 2011. I give each service an actual unique email address and then just catch-all emails sent to my domain. It works great.
This works but only because running your own mail server is too uncommon for anyone to care about. If it was more common, the advertisers or other privacy violators would specifically check for catch-all domains and then strip the entire local part of the email for your user id.
As a user I can only hope that more people do stop using YouTube, preferrably choosing something that serves video files directly instead.
> As for email spam prevention, I've run my own mailserver with a domain since 2011. I give each service an actual unique email address and then just catch-all emails sent to my domain. It works great.
This works but only because running your own mail server is too uncommon for anyone to care about. If it was more common, the advertisers or other privacy violators would specifically check for catch-all domains and then strip the entire local part of the email for your user id.