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Internet Archive Was Exposing User Email Addresses for Years Before Recent Breach
(theintercept.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2024
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Oh no, won't someone think of the email addresses?!
Guys. IP addresses, and email addresses...aren't really private things.
Not everyone throws their E-Mail at every Text field they see.
Funny because of the "not a paywall" on the article which the intent is to force the user into providing their email address to read the entire article.
Idk, being that "that's so they can sell your email," I'm inclined to argue that it is a paywall, the currency is just "email" not "USD."
The entire point of a web browser is to allow scum to:
endlessly throw loginwalls and paywalls at us
load dodgy third party sites libraries
insisting on kyc as an act to show and display continuous acts of compliance
So not surprising the linked site has either a login or paywall.
Forcing a phone number is kyc. kyc is obnoxious.