2025-12-04 11:25:42

Recently, I've been getting into some privacy protection projects, and it suddenly hit me—what we do online every day is actually way more transparent than we think.

Take email, for example. You might think it's just sending a message or receiving a notification. But in reality, every email carries a long trail of data behind it.

To be honest, I never thought much about it before. It's just email—what could possibly go wrong?

That was until I discovered what's actually attached to every single email...

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RumbleValidator

· 12-06 17:26

This area of data traces should have received attention long ago. The metadata in email headers alone is enough to reconstruct half of your life trajectory—IP addresses, timestamps, and client information are all there.

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RunWithRugs

· 12-06 11:55

Damn, we should have paid attention to email a long time ago. Realizing it only now is a bit late.

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TokenVelocity

· 12-04 11:54

Should have realized it earlier, email has long ceased to be a secret.

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TideReceder

· 12-04 11:53

Wake up, everyone, your emails have already been exposed. Privacy simply doesn’t exist on the internet; I’ve already accepted that. That string of data after the email... great, yet another thing I have to guard against. Contributing data every day, I’m numb to it. This is the real problem Web3 should solve, not coin prices.

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ForumMiningMaster

· 12-04 11:52

Damn, is email really that overrated? I never thought about it before.

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StakoorNeverSleeps

· 12-04 11:48

Damn, now I understand why there are always people buying privacy coins... there are so many pitfalls with email.

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FrogInTheWell