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Storing contact list by any service should be illegal. You might try to not share your data, but if anyone has you on their contact list, it’s out of your hands



Which is why you also dont tell the service your phone number or reuse an email address


I wonder if Google has a backdoor API which lets group people by backup email. If one always creates an account with the previous email as a backup, the link is east to make.

That would be especially useful for censorship services across competitors: Although Google Facebook and Twitter compete, sharing the flagged accounts would allow recognizing the same user coming back with a different email address.


who said anything about backup email

but sure? probably if you just alternate between a backup email tied to an email you use everywhere


New email per every service you want to use? It shouldn’t be this complicated


Sign In With Apple does exactly this — generates a fake e-mail address for each account, so the data harvesters never get your real one.


no. new email for the same service to make a new account, even after deleting your old account.

a lot of people dont know how or why they get the same suggestions of people and dont want that.




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