It’s crazy the amount of AI image and video generators popping up right now that are “free” if you would just be a sweetie and give them your email address. I had one recently that only allowed gmail, presumably to make it harder for people to just use an anti spam inbox. People just don’t realise how valuable a fresh, active email address is. If I see anything like that these days I nope out immediately.
Well, potentially a lot, specially when sold for crossing data with other sources. I worked in a place willing to lose millions of dollars a month, without profit, hoping that eventually in 1 or 2 years the few bits of personal info they were capturing could be sold.
Also worked on another place that aggregated all public info available for everyone and allowed with 2 clicks understand many things about a person and all their family for example.
It’s crazy the amount of AI image and video generators popping up right now that are “free” if you would just be a sweetie and give them your email address. I had one recently that only allowed gmail, presumably to make it harder for people to just use an anti spam inbox. People just don’t realise how valuable a fresh, active email address is. If I see anything like that these days I nope out immediately.
How valuable is it?
Well, potentially a lot, specially when sold for crossing data with other sources. I worked in a place willing to lose millions of dollars a month, without profit, hoping that eventually in 1 or 2 years the few bits of personal info they were capturing could be sold.
Also worked on another place that aggregated all public info available for everyone and allowed with 2 clicks understand many things about a person and all their family for example.
No one knows
Very.
What are they going to do with it
It’s basically your ID on the internet, at least if you’re the regular person using same address everywhere.
So you don’t use anything that requires an email address? That’s everything lol