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WhatsApp is one step closer to adding email address verification (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not if whois privacy is in place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

True, signing up for several accounts using the same personal domain will create a link between those accounts though (whereas if they're all @simplelogin.com or similar then you're hiding asking the crowd)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Maybe. However, as long as they don't know my real name/identity I don't really care. Fact is that is much easier for companies to just block known email alias services than unknown random domain. Some of them do this already. Neither method is perfect, obviously.