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We made the most money selling disposable emails, something we called Cloaked Email. It was similar to what Apple is offering soon.

https://www.engadget.com/2012/08/14/gliph-launches-new-cloak...

At the time privacy was a thing that seemed possible to monetize. Over time that is true but it comes “for free” at the platform level now to some extent with Apple.

We wanted ultimately to get paid from companies seeking personal data from their users. Users would allow it, then we would federate the data and co would pay for the privlidge.




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