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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/mildlyinfuriating/p/990534/why

How hard is it to implement email verification?

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[–] 50 points 2 months ago (8 children)

This is fine for stuff I don't care that much about, like an account with your hairdresser or a pizza place, but if you tie all your actually important stuff to the same account and you get locked out for whatever reason, now you're locked out of your whole life.

I prefer unique passwords and a password manager. But you do have to back up the password manager data as well as any data you have with cloud providers.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    For me the bigger issue is privacy. If you're using Google to log into everything, Google gets to add all of that activity to their profile on you, and track you as you use every website you go to. No thanks. Google doesn't need to know I'm buying a pizza tonight.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    That is also a concern and why I always default to a separate account even for those things, but I wouldn't assume that data doesn't get sold to Google regardless.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I prefer to use different email aliases for everything to mitigate that

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    from what i've read, ALL email ( possible 0.000something tolerance/error ) goes through google's mail-transfer-agents.

    If they want a copy of every email that goes across the internet, they've got the saturation-of-core-servers to have that.

    There simply isn't any way to bypass that.

    on an irrelated note, i wish public key encryption had been normalized, & worked right..

    ( Snowden got stung by a misconfiguration, 1 time, & if geeks get stung, then it isn't ready for normals )

    🙏

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