This project seems to work under the pretense of fighting the spammers. Maybe it actually does. But it also deprives people of their right to not be tracked constantly, to remain anonymous. A world with no crime is a world without individual freedoms. The way this is so casually and openly discussed here is slightly terrifying.
To work around our list while having a decent level of privacy just do not use a complete burner address. You can e.g. make a pseudonym address with an actual provider like gmail, fastmail, protonmail etc. Heck we even have an allowlist with some "shady" providers that balance on the edge included in the repo, just browse: https://github.com/disposable-email-domains/disposable-email...
In retrospect my comment was probably too harsh. Thanks for providing an escape hatch, but it's practically impossible to create an anonymous gmail account.
A world with no accountability is a world without individual safety.
One’s individual right to remain anonymous does not necessarily take precedence over the societal right to hold one accountable. The pendulum of that tension swung all the way to fully anonymous over the past decades, and we now have the most unsafe Internet that has ever existed.
It will, guaranteed, swing back from full anonymity, as already began with many things one could previously access anonymously (such as email verification only) online or in person: Cellular service (ID required), FedEx shipping (ID required), many Discord chats (verified phone number required to defend against sock puppet attacks), and LinkedIn name changes (birth certificate and photo ID required). Whether it swings back to “no right to pseudonyms” or instead cones to rest on lesser outcomes such as “identity protected by law” and “a warrant is required” is up to politicians to decide.
Politicians do not accept and consider anonymous letters, so adhering to the outgoing belief in perfect anonymity may severely construct your ability to influence the outcome of the pendulum’s backswing away from it. I hope that when you write your politicians about this issue, you are doing so in handwriting from your registered voter name and address, so that they are considering your input at all.
"Safety" is the capability to exert your individual freedoms freely. If, to ensure that safety, you suppressed the freedoms, then you've failed.
But we're not talking about fighting crime here, but companies tracking what people do and as far as I know there is no societal right for Discord and LinkedIn to track people.
If that pendulum ever swings back too far, and you're right, it likely will, I'll be sure to let "my politicians" know using regular old no-government-id-required email as I already did on occasion with no issue.
