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Originally Posted by jhowell
With third party cookies on the way out as a means of tracking users many websites are requiring that a free account be created associated with a verified email address so that advertisers can track people across sites.
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Then comes the "shared email address". On a large scale. Some third-world-country guy (i.e., un-trackable and un-prosecutable) will create an email address and publish the login details for anyone who might want to use it. Do this several thousand times with several thousand people popping in and using any one of the email addresses for spam/tracking avoidance when signing up on websites.
These websites doing this "register a free account" thing have got to know that their efforts will fail, and in very short order. They just can't be stupid enough to think they have a way to trap people into their advertisements and personal data collection here. Must be the same group of people who keep putting DRM on ebooks.