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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by fragmede on Sunday December 31, 2023 @10:31AM (#38824692)
I'm sure there's a criminal underworld where you can just buy a passport to get you into a country, but for the average person, passports are really hard to fake, which makes them good enough as identity for logging into your average dog photo sharing site.
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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by maxcoder4 on Sunday December 31, 2023 @10:47AM (#38824813)
Why would I want to log in to a dog sharing website using my real identity? Maybe I'm an outlier but I really value the pseudonymity possible thanks to the internet. I can share as much or as little about me as I want, and the dumb things I probably wrote when I was 14 are not immortalized with my name next to them.
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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by Cyberdog on Sunday December 31, 2023 @03:16PM (#38827149)
A dog what web site?
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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by CatWChainsaw on Sunday December 31, 2023 @04:28PM (#38827670)
They said dogs, not cyberdogs, so you might be safe?
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