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[โ€“] tryitout 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I made the mistake of signing up for Discord with a new email address a couple years ago and the amount of spam I started getting to that email was insane. I wasn't using that email to sign up for any other accounts yet so I know it was them. Happened like a week after signing up, I figured they just immediately turn around and sell whatever info they get from their users as soon as they get it. I won't be giving them anything else, thanks.

Strange, I used an alias with them years ago and nothing ever gets sent to it.