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The best way to handle it is to make a "minimum viable" account and do absolutely nothing with it, ever, except login and logout annually. Set up a spam filter to trash every single notice from the company.


Can you help me understand why this is preferable to never joining in the first place? What is the goal? Controlling the entry for my email/auth of choice?


It is a mitigation for identity theft and slander.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26931894


Interesting. Thank you for the link.




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