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Can email masking be "transparent"?
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this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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Custom domains and aliasing services have two slightly different purposes as aliasing services can serve to mask your identity aswell.
A custom domain still enables tracking across accounts.
It would require a human to do that linking. Nobody knows how many people have emails at your domain.
You could use a anonymous domain hosting service to register the domain as well.
Advancements in data science in the past 2 decades have shown the opposite.
The problem is not the paper trail between domain and you but the domain being a proxy for you, the person. Let's take an example: You register the totally anonymous domain algk3oii01aslf0.com. Super duper secure and anonymous, right?
Now you use a catch-all to register your accounts using
servicename@algk3oii01aslf0.comon facebook, Google, M$, Reddit and what have you.Do you see the problem here? If those services were to collaborate (indirectly, they do on a certain level), that'd enable them to identify you as a single entity across these services. Your activity is tracked and attributed to a certain identifier. Whether that identifier is your real name or just a random UUID is of little relevance; it's still you being tracked.
For the services I listed, this discussion is probably redundant as they have thousands of other means to fingerprinting you but you don't have to make it easy for them either.