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max_dryzen@mander.xyz 3 weeks agowouldn’t profilers simply track via the domain tld instead of the whole address…
shopping1 at uniquedomain.com, bank2 at uniquedomain.com, etc
Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.
max_dryzen@mander.xyz 3 weeks agowouldn’t profilers simply track via the domain tld instead of the whole address…
shopping1 at uniquedomain.com, bank2 at uniquedomain.com, etc
CatZoomies@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Great questions! Seriously, those made me think for sure.
For question one, I suppose a profiler could do that. If my domain name is myemaildomain.com, they probably could track all emails and sell it collectively. But I don’t think corporations do that at this time. That would be akin to profiling all Hotmail, Gmail, Live, etc emails, appreciating those are massive services. I suppose if nefarious actors were to do that to my domain, I could consider switching domains - I have multiple domain names I own, and it’d be trivial to use the other ones. In the years I’ve been using a custom domain for email, I haven’t encountered any nefarious actors and have significantly eliminated any spam.
For question two, the domain provider I use doesn’t do that in their terms of service. However, if they did look at my MX records and decided they wanted to profile me as a user of Addy, they definitely could do that. Though it would hurt their business as many users would migrate their domains to new registrars - I certainly would move my domains to a new registrar!