risencode@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•I am genuinely horrified to see how much data google collected from me
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7 months agonow they have your email.
That’s why you use hide-my-email aliases when you sign up to sites, so they can’t tie “your” email to you anymore.
Every time I 'm forced to use a google account
Create a few junk accounts, send recovery to a hide-my-email alias
If you use password managers it really is no bother to have multiple accounts, and Proton Pass integrates hide-my-email, it’s pretty neat.
Today you learned a valuable lesson:
When an online service is free it generally means you’re the product.