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title: Online Identity Owned by Email Provider
date: 2019-08-30
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author: Cincinnatus
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## Email is a great way to understand everything about a person

If you don't own or run your email ("not your keys, not your email"), then your on-line identify is owned by your email provider.

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/email-identity-provider.html

This is even true for Proton, kids. Centralization sucks.