Comment by nabbed
24 days ago
The "required login" pattern is particularly a problem. I seem to have namesakes around the US and UK that use my email address as their own when signing up for various services (mobile phone services, Shopify, Uber, various banks and investment firms, landscaper services, real estate services, home and car insurance, car repair shops, even Silver Daddies!!).
I can't open an issue (to ask the service to remove my email) without logging in to an account I don't have control over.
I don't want to use "forgot my password", because I don't want my IP address to be associated with a login to the account, because in some cases (particularly Shopify), the services were obviously used for fraud.
> I can't open an issue (to ask the service to remove my email) without logging in to an account I don't have control over.
> I don't want to use "forgot my password", because I don't want my IP address to be associated with a login to the account
As a fellow victim of worldwide technically-illiterate namesakes, I used to do this using the TOR browser until I had a paid VPN service which is what I use now. Out of sheer paranoia, I always use a secondary browser profile while using a false userAgent extension.
I was pretty early to Gmail, I paid $5 for an invite to the beta, and secured my first(.)last@gmail.com. But now I pay for my own domain and my own hosted email just to avoid any collisions