Emails are fine, as they can be anonymous as long as you don't use one of the larger providers.
Phone numbers, not so much. They are in many countries tied to people's real IDs because something about stopping organized crime.
Phone numbers, not so much. They are in many countries tied to people's real IDs because something about stopping organized crime.
I’ve always struggled with this.
If you use a large provider for your email, the provider can likely de-anonymize you, but the person you give your email address to will struggle.
If you use your own domain, you’ve de-anonymized yourself already.
So I guess you have to use a smaller provider like protonmail? Which gets messy once you start wanting to have lots of email addresses, or to use subaddressing of some sort?
I think using a reliable smaller provider of the latter variaty and donating money to them would make a nice synergy.
I agree that having a phone number often comes with a paper trail in many jurisdiction, but surely it's not common to make it hard to have multiple such numbers?
In fact it's so common that people in the snooping business already know ways to correlate them.
It's also an almost perfect way to limit use (excluding the right people).