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0 pointswhstl1y ago0 comments

I worked in some companies that had this popup, and the most common goal was to harvest email addresses for newsletters.

Setting this up has become an automatic request from marketing people, almost as common as asking us to setup Google Analytics and such.

This is almost the equivalent to them to "have a CI/CD" for us devs: not having such things for them is strange, almost wrong. Of course the end goal is totally different.

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zwog1y ago

> I worked in some companies that had this popup, and the most common goal was to harvest email addresses for newsletters.

Ooh, I've never looked into it, but I would have thought that with this feature the website explicitly does NOT get my email address. Silly me, still believing some features are meant for the user.

whstlOP1y ago

For fairness, I just disabled my Ad Blocker to check, and the popup seems to have changed, but the previous popups were quite explicit about sharing your email with the website:

https://superuser.com/questions/1414410/how-to-disable-googl...

I can't confirm whether the email is still shared. It used to be the case from late 2010s up to a few years ago.

bilekas1y ago

While I don't consider myself an apple fanboy by any means they really did do a good job with their apple sign in, I don't know the full process but they seem to use an email from a pool of apple IDs for emails that prevent the app/service ever getting your real email.

It would be easy to assume that other oath providers are doing the same but absolutely not.

whstlOP1y ago

Yep, it uses an auto-generated @icloud.com for "Hide my Email" (useable in any website, or even if you want to give to someone in person) and @privaterelay.appleid.com when you use "Sign In With Apple".

This is quite visible in User Accounts where I work... while they do cause some issues from time to time (when the user disables the relay address for an active account), it guarantees privacy.

But I don't know if other popular single-sign-on provider do this.

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0 pointswhstl1y ago0 comments

I worked in some companies that had this popup, and the most common goal was to harvest email addresses for newsletters.

Setting this up has become an automatic request from marketing people, almost as common as asking us to setup Google Analytics and such.

This is almost the equivalent to them to "have a CI/CD" for us devs: not having such things for them is strange, almost wrong. Of course the end goal is totally different.

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zwog1y ago

> I worked in some companies that had this popup, and the most common goal was to harvest email addresses for newsletters.

Ooh, I've never looked into it, but I would have thought that with this feature the website explicitly does NOT get my email address. Silly me, still believing some features are meant for the user.

whstlOP1y ago

For fairness, I just disabled my Ad Blocker to check, and the popup seems to have changed, but the previous popups were quite explicit about sharing your email with the website:

https://superuser.com/questions/1414410/how-to-disable-googl...

I can't confirm whether the email is still shared. It used to be the case from late 2010s up to a few years ago.

bilekas1y ago

It would be easy to assume that other oath providers are doing the same but absolutely not.

whstlOP1y ago

This is quite visible in User Accounts where I work... while they do cause some issues from time to time (when the user disables the relay address for an active account), it guarantees privacy.

But I don't know if other popular single-sign-on provider do this.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse