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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/mildlyinfuriating/p/990534/why How hard is it to implement email verification?
minus-squarevalar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 hours agoI prefer to use different email aliases for everything to mitigate that
minus-squareParagone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·39 minutes agofrom 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 ) 🙏
minus-squarevalar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·36 minutes agoThe important part is whether they can associate two identities together. If you use a shared Google login for everything you’re doing their work for them.
I prefer to use different email aliases for everything to mitigate that
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 )
🙏
The important part is whether they can associate two identities together. If you use a shared Google login for everything you’re doing their work for them.