Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000

Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by alt227 on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @11:19AM (#43026822)

> Why isn't that conceivably worth more than $10,000?

If it exposed passwords as well then that would be worth a lot more, but a list of email addresses is not the most valuable of things on its own.

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by lxgr on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @11:46AM (#43027098)

Potentially deanonymizing pseudonymous Youtube accounts sounds pretty bad by itself.

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by g8oz on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @12:34PM (#43027594)

I can see that being worth a lot to a nation state

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by alt227 on Thursday February 13, 2025 @01:02PM (#43039086)

> deanonymizing pseudonymous Youtube accounts

But its not, its giving their gmail address which is mostlikely something like [email protected]

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by lxgr on Thursday February 13, 2025 @03:39PM (#43041030)

Often, but I'd bet not always.

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